Scarlett Croft
A Rare Case: Black Women and Hysteria
This essay argues that mainstream psychiatrists and physicians between 1860 to 1900 conceptualised Black women (both those inside and...
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Japneet Hayer
Apr 15, 202311 min read
The Effects of Mercantilism and Capitalism on the systemic violence imposed on Enslaved Africans
It is an undisputable fact that enslaved Africans were put through violent, horrific practices in all areas of enslavement. Some...
Chantelle Lee
Nov 10, 20229 min read
Native Americans and the ‘Plan for Civilisation’, c.1783 - 1830
Following the American Revolution, the new United States’ desire for more land was at the forefront of policy. Although the Indigenous...
Chantelle Lee
Jul 23, 202210 min read
Was emancipation during the Civil War driven more by military necessity than moral conviction?
The standard popular narrative of the American Civil War is that it was a war fought to end slavery, pitched between the slaveholding...
Leandro Vargas Llosa
Jun 20, 202215 min read
New Latin American Cold War Historiography and the coups of Guatemala in 1954 and Chile in 1973
Recent Latin American Cold War historiography attempts to transcend scholarship in the 80s and 90s that tethered the region’s Cold War...
Matthew Ainsby
Jun 20, 20229 min read
The influence of gender relations in the South on the ideology of slavery between 1670 and 1865
The ideology of slavery, defined in this essay as the notion of complete ownership and mastery of African American slaves that centred...
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