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Jacqueline Jones

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Pressured to Leave

Black refugees’ journey from Virginia to Boston after the Civil War.

by Jacqueline Jones via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 11, 2023
Biography’s Occupational Hazards: Confronting Your Subject as Both Person and Persona

As a biographer, Jacqueline Jones found herself wondering how she should deal with aspects of her subject’s life that left her baffled, even mystified.

by Jacqueline Jones via Perspectives on History on September 8, 2021
Was 2017 the Craziest Year in U.S. Political History?

A dozen historians weigh in.

by Heather Cox Richardson, Jack Rakove, Ron Chernow, Leo P. Ribuffo, David Greenberg, Nicole Hemmer, H. W. Brands, Jacqueline Jones, Adriane Lentz-Smith, Vanessa Walker, Joshua Zeitz, Elizabeth F. Ralph via Politico Magazine on December 29, 2017

No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era

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Street Fighting Woman

A new biography of Lucy Parsons makes it clear that the activist deserves attention apart from her more well-known husband.

by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on December 21, 2017

Black and white divided star on the cover of "Two Nations" by Andrew Hacker.

The American Dilemma

The moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination.

by David Brion Davis via New York Review of Books on July 16, 1992

Sign reading "Whatever you're not changing you are choosing"

"The Culture Wars— They’re Back!"

Divisive concepts, critical race theory, and more in 2021.

by Laura Ansley via Perspectives on History on August 11, 2021

How Hoop Skirts Actually Advanced Women's Rights

The difficult-to-wear skirt helped to break down class barriers.

by Skye Makaris via Racked on December 7, 2017

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