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University of Minnesota Professor Saje Mathieu taught a class about “neutrality” and what that concept meant in World War I America. She explained how neutrality did not mean inactivity, as …

Journalist and author Cameron McWhirter and historian Saje Mathieu discussed what is known as the “Red Summer” of 1919, a months-long period of racial unrest and violence against African Ame…

To mark the 2018 centennial of World War I, a panel of historians met to reflect on African Americans in the Great War. They talked about the discrimination that black soldiers faced before,…

University of Minnesota professor Saje Mathieu talked about how World War I impacted African Americans. She argued that the promise of a better life because of military service in the war wa…