
Over the past decade, Not Even Past has published a wide range of resources connected to Black History. These are designed to showcase research but also to help teachers. Here they are collected in one compilation page.
Compiled by Alina Scott
Topics
- Economy of Slavery
- Slavery & the Family
- Urban Slavery
- Key Figures
- Medicine & Healthcare
- Civil Rights & Black Power
- On #BlackLivesMatter
- Gender & Sexuality
- Diasporic Blackness
- Primary Sources
- Reviews

Economy of Slavery
- “White Women and the Economy of Slavery” by Stephanie Jones-Rogers
White slave-owning women were not the only ones to insist on their profound economic investments in the institution of slavery; the enslaved people they owned and white members of southern communities did too. The testimony of formerly enslaved people and other narrative sources, legal documents, and financial records dramatically reshape current understandings of white women’s economic relationships to slavery, situating those relationships firmly at the center of nineteenth-century America’s most significant and devastating system of economic exchange. These sources reveal that white parents raised their daughters with particular expectations related to owning slaves and taught them how to be effective slave masters. These lessons played a formative role in how white women conceptualized their personal relationships to human property, imagined the powers that they would possess once they became slave owners in their own right, and shaped their techniques of slave control.
STEPHANIE E. JONES-ROGERS
- 15 Minute History Episode 120: Slave-Owning Women in Antebellum U.S. with Dr. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
- “Slavery in America: Back in the Headlines” by Daina Ramey Berry
- “Slavery and Freedom in Savannah” by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
- Visualizing Emancipation(s): Mapping The End of Slavery in America by Henry Wiencek
- An “Act of Justice”? by Juliet Walker

Slavery & the Family
- 15 Minute History Episode 88: The Search for Family Lost in Slavery with Dr. Heather Andrea Williams
- “Love in the Time of Texas Slavery” by Maria Esther Hammack
- Driven Toward Madness: The Fugitive Slave Margaret Garner and Tragedy on the Ohio by Nikki M. Taylor (2016) – reviewed by Signe Peterson Fourmy
- “Let the Enslaved Testify” by Daina Ramey Berry

Urban Slavery
- 15 Minute History Episode 54: Urban Slavery in the Antebellum United States with Dr. Daina Ramey Berry and Dr. Leslie Harris
- Slavery in Early Austin: The Stringer’s Hotel and Urban Slavery by Clifton Sorrell III

Key Figures
- “Andrew Cox Marshall: Between Slavery and Freedom in Savannah” by Tania Sammons
- 15 Minute History Episode 105: Slavery and Abolition with Manisha Sinha
- “Rising From the Ashes: The Oklahoma Eagle and its Long Road to Preservation” by Jaden Janak
Lucy Parsons’s biography offers several overlapping narratives— a love story between a former slave and a former Confederate soldier, the rise and decline of radical labor agitation, the evolution of race as a political ideology and social signifier, and the trajectory of social reform from Reconstruction through the New Deal. She was a bold, enigmatic woman. Her power to inform and fascinate is enduring and her story, in all its complexity, remains a remarkable one for its useful legacies no less than its cautionary lessons.
Jacqueline Jones, “Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical”
- “Ordinary Yet Infamous: Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso” by Kali Nicole Gross
- “Goddess of Anarchy: Lucy Parsons, American Radical” by Jacqueline Jones
- “Before Red Tails: Black Servicemen in World War I” by Jermaine Thibodeaux
- “Eddie Anderson, the Black Film Star Created by Radio” by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley

Medicine & Healthcare
- “The Odds are Stacked Against Us: Oral Histories of Black Healthcare in the U.S.” By Thomaia Pamplin

Civil Rights & Black Power
- “Black Women in Black Power” by Ashley Farmer
- “Stokely Carmichael: A Life” by Peniel Joseph
- “Muhammad Ali Helped Make Black Power Into a Global Brand” By Peniel Joseph
- 15 Minute History Episode 90: Stokely Carmichael: A Life with Peniel E. Joseph
- US Survey Course: Civil Rights
- Student Showcase – Faubourg Treme: Fighting for Civil Rights in 19th Century New Orleans
- 1863 in 1963 by Laurie Green
- The Sword and The Shield – a conversation with Peniel Joseph
- Beauty Shop Politics by Tiffany Gill

On #BlackLivesMatter
- “#Blacklivesmatter Till They Don’t: Slavery’s Lasting Legacy” by Daina Ramey Berry and Jennifer L. Morgan
- “Violence Against Black People in America: A ClioVis Timeline” by Haley Price, William Jones, and Alina Scott

Gender & Sexuality
- Slavery, Work and Sexuality by Daina Ramey Berry
- “Black Women’s History in the US: Past & Present” by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- “Black is Beautiful – And Profitable” by Tiffany Gill
Black is beautiful. The Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s popularized this slogan and sentiment, but almost half-a-century earlier, black beauty companies used elaborate advertisements like the one pictured here to sell their vision to uplift and beautify black women. African American women like Madam C.J. Walker produced beauty products and trained women to work as sales agents and beauticians. and in the process, developed an enduring enterprise that promoted economic opportunities and connections with African descendant peoples throughout North and South America.
Tiffany Gill, “Black is Beautiful – And Profitable”

Diaspora
- Slavery and Race in Colonial Latin America
- 15 Minute History Episode 70: Slavery and Abolition in Iran
- Frank A. Guridy on the Transnational Black Diaspora
- African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines (2007)

Primary Sources

Reviews in Black History
- King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff (2009) by Tiana Wilson
- Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes (2016) By Tiana Wilson
- We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2017) By Brandon Render
Fuentes’ work contributes to the historical knowledge of early America through her focus on violence and how it operated during slavery and continues today through archives. She cautions scholars to avoid traditional readings of archival evidence, which are produced by and for the dominant narratives of slavery. Instead, she calls for a reading “along the bias grain,” of historical records and against the politics of the historiography on a given topic. In other words, she pushes historians to stretch fragmented archival evidence in order to reflect a more nuanced, complex understanding of enslaved people’ lives.
Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive by Marisa Fuentes, Reviewed By Tiana Wilson
- Monroe by Lisa B. Thompson (2018) by Tiana Wilson
- Historical Perspectives on Marshall (dir: Reginal Hudlin, 2017) by Luritta DuBois
- African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates and the Civil Rights Era by Kevin K. Gaines (2007) by Joseph Parrott
- Baseball’s Great Experiment: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy by Jules Tygiel (1997) by Dolph Briscoe IV
- Historical Perspectives on The Birth of a Nation (2016) by Ronald Davis
- A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles from the Great Depression to the Present by Josh Sides (2003) by Cameron McCoy