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The 43rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes honored literary works in several categories including biography and current events. This event took place during the 2023 Los Angeles Times Fes…

Kerri Greenidge (The Grimkes), Rachel Webster (Benjamin Banneker and Us), Kidada Williams (I Saw Death Coming), and Ilyon Woo (Master Slave, Husband Wife) discussed slavery in America and th…

Author Mary Sarah Bilder looked at the life of Eliza Harriot Barons O’Connor, one of the first female lecturers in the 1780s, and her impact on American intellectual life. This virtual event…

Historians talked about the passage of the 15th and 19th Amendments and the struggle for Black women’s suffrage. This virtual event was hosted by the National Constitution Center in Philadel…

Author Laura Edwards talked about how 19th century women used clothing and textiles circumvent property law. She talks about how courts made an exception to the rule barring women from ownin…

Columbia University presented the Bancroft prize to the 2022 winners, authors Mia Bay (Traveling Black) and Mae Ngai (The Chinese Question).

Authors Martha Jones, Eddie Cole, and Kate Masur examined the legacy and power of Black organizing and Black institutions in America.

Professors Christopher Bracey and Martha Jones talked about the background of the 1857 Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the court sided 7-2 with slavery and declared that …

Martha Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality For All, talked about the various ways African American women became involved in the …

Johns Hopkins University history professor Martha Jones explored the efforts by Black women to win their right to vote. This was a virtual event hosted by Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Ma…

Professor Martha Jones talked about the mid-19th century court case of Celia, a female slave who killed her master after repeated sexual assaults. Topcis included what options Celia may have…

Curators from the National Portrait Gallery, National Archives, and the Library of Congress discussed their institutions' exhibits commemorating the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women th…

All in Together, the National Constitution Center, the National Archives, amd several other foundations hosted a series of conversations on the history, legacy, and future of the 19th Amendm…

Next on American History TV, a panel of professors looks at the history behind the 14th Amendment and its grant of birthright citizenship. Topics include what constituted citizenship in the …