A good book review is a historian’s best friend. In that spirit, The Life of a Historian offers our review of… Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Affiliate Disclosure The Life of a Historian: A Book Review of Mary L. Dudziak’s Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy In Cold War Civil Rights, Mary L. Dudziak situates the American
In chapter two of the A City through Their Eyes series, The Life of a Historian tells the story of Pontchartrain Park through the eyes of Rosa Keller. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Keller helped fund and initiate the construction of one of the first middle-class African American neighborhoods in the South. “I walk in two worlds”: Rosa Keller, Pontchartrain Park, and Moving beyond Race and Class Portrait of Rosa Keller, c. 1960s
In chapter one of the A City through Their Eyes series, The Life of a Historian explores how free and enslaved women used the colonial marketplace to their advantage. Starting from a familiar space, Congo Square (Place des Nègres), this post reveals that as entrepreneurs African women and women of African descent redefined the racial and gendered power dynamics of French and Spanish New Orleans. Women in the Marketplace of Congo Square: Challenging the Racial
In this historiographical essay, The Life of a Historian surveys the current scholarship of the history of black banking. In particular, this review primarily focuses on the following historians and their respective books: Garrett-Scott, Shennette. Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. Henderson, Alexa Benson. “R. R. Wright and the National Negro Bankers Association: Early Organizing Efforts among Black Bankers, 1924-1942.” Pennsylvania Magazine of
A good book review is a historian’s best friend. In that spirit, The Life of a Historian offers our review of… Noll, Mark A. The Civil War as a Theological Crisis. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Oshatz, Molly. Slavery and Sin: The Fight against Slavery and the Rise of Liberal Protestantism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Affiliate Disclosure The Life of the Historian: A Book Review of Mark Noll’s and Molly