Month: June 2017

By Katie Campbell – Last week we published part 1 of Bid Us Rise From Slavery. Incase you missed it, you can read it here. Part 2. Part of my research involved studying abolitionist poetry as a method for convincing people of the injustice of slavery, and I want to read one of the poems…

By Katie Campbell – As someone who has made my whole career about studying history (and teaching it to others), I have encountered interesting reactions from others when I tell them what I do. Usually the response involves, ‘I always thought history was really boring in school, but now I wish I knew more about…