I didn’t set out to write about sheriffs. I was working on a history of a 1933 murder that began with the beating, robbery, and death of a white shopkeeper in the tiny town of Pompano in Broward County, Florida, and ended with the 1940 United States Supreme Court decision known as Chambers v. Florid

Process: a blog for american history

14.08.2024

Resisting the Lonely Historian

I long imagined writing as a lonely endeavor. My vision was of an individual bent over a notebook, solitary in some winged armchair, in a room quiet save for the gasps of a dying fire. As an undergraduate, I found friends who shared my habits of pouring over fantasy novels and writing poems on class

Process: a blog for american history

21.08.2024

Black Activism & the Jazz Age

This piece is a response to our Call for Submissions: Histories of Political Protest in the U.S. For our submission guidelines, click here. While the literary figures of the Harlem Renaissance are correctly celebrated as intellectuals and activists, jazz musicians of the time were not extended si

Process: a blog for american history

11.09.2024

Fifty Years of Combahee River Collective

This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Celebrating Combahee at Fifty: Black Feminism, Socialism, Race, and Sexuality. For our submission guidelines, click here. The use of the wave metaphor for describing feminism has been criticized for suggesting unified progression across the Wo

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The Peculiar World of American Sheriffs

Resisting the Lonely Historian

Black Activism & the Jazz Age

Fifty Years of Combahee River Collective

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