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APSA Oral History Project: Contributions by Scholars of Color Interview Series

Political Science Now

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California.

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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

Archaeological evidence and Oral Histories show people in what is today Ghana lived sustainably for millennia—until European colonial powers and the widespread trade of enslaved people changed everything. While Logan’s work revealed the plants Banda residents ate, other research reconstructed the region’s broader environmental history.

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People’s History of Memorial Day

Zinn Education Project

Memorial Day Massacre Check out the documentary and companion oral history collection, Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried about the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. “The

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In Memoriam: Renowned Political Scientist and former APSA President, Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr., Passes Away

Political Science Now

He also completed an APSA Oral History Interview in 1993, where he shares his experiences in the discipline of political science. Read more Related Articles: The HistoryMakers: Biography: Dr. Matthew Holden, Jr. Bunche Award Committee (1983), and the Centennial Campaign Presidents Council (98-03).

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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From Theory to Praxis: Entrepreneurship as Resistance 

Anthropology News

Thankfully, we have records of past Afro-descendant entrepreneurs through both written and oral histories. In this article I consider two inflection points in my life that led me to entrepreneurship as a form of resistance. Turning one’s gaze south, the works of historian Michael L.

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Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine

Teaching American History

Not only is Bates important to the history of Central High’s integration, she is also a significant figure in the national Civil Rights Movement. In one instance, the Bateses were charged with contempt of court for an article they published. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E.