Tag: African American history

• It Was Really Her Plantation: White Early American Southern Women’s Positions of Authority on Plantations 1607-1776

  

  Today we have a really interesting guest post lined up for you. I’m happy to introduce Catherine Williams, a graduate student in Early Modern Studies, who will be telling us all about White women in the Early Modern American South. These women held unique positions of power and authority through their scarcity and through the…

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  October 7, 2025

  Women’s History

  17th Century, 18th Century, African American history, American History, Black history, Black History Month, British History, Colonial America, Early Modern, English History, history, Slavery, Women’s History

• Historical Figures: Madam C J Walker, Titan of Industry

  

  Years ago I was writing one of my daily social media posts on the theme of “on this day” and I saw that the day I was writing (23rd December) was the birthday of a woman named Madam C J Walker. Intrigued, I looked into her to see whether to write a post about her…

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  August 24, 2022

  Historical Figures, Women’s History

  19th Century, 20th Century, African American history, American History, Beauty, Black history, Business, Emancipation, Entrepreneur, history, Slavery, Women’s History

• World Book Day: Millennia of Firsts – a Brief History of the Book

  

  As many of you may know, today – March 2nd – is World Book Day. Typically this is a day mostly celebrated by school children, often as an excuse to dress up as favourite book characters. As such, I decided that today’s blog post should be dedicated in its honour. Due to the nature of…

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  March 2, 2017

  Seasonal

  African American history, American History, Ancient Egypt, Ancient History, Books, Christine de Pisan, history, Medieval History, Printing Press, World Book Day, Writing