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Signe Peterson Fourmy

Last Seen: Teaching about Slavery through the Lens of the Domestic Slave Trade and Family Separation

September 7, 2023

History education has been under attack recently. Or, more specifically, efforts to accurately teach the painful, brutal history of slavery are under attack. Teaching the hard history of slavery has long been a problem in American classrooms. Recently, the battle over state curriculum standards has intensified as some seek to revive a version of history […]

Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor (2016)

April 3, 2019

In January of 1856, a prolonged period of frigid temperatures in northern Kentucky—the coldest in sixty years—froze the Ohio River creating a bridge to freedom for enslaved people daring enough to cross it. On Sunday, January 27, 1856, Margaret Garner and seven members of her family made the arduous eighteen-mile journey that separated their lives […]

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  • Review of The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico (2025)
  • Constructing a Canyon: Black CCC Workers and the Making of Palo Duro
  • Review of The Hard Work of Hope: A Memoir, by Michael Ansara (2025)
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