The 3H Blog: History, Home, Horizons (Archived)
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Trump Plan To Cut NEH and NEA Diminishes Us All
This post was originally published on the Huffington Post on February 2, 2017. View the original post. The searing novel by Alice Walker that transformed your sense of the social world, the ancient…
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The Ghosts of Six Acres, an African-American Owned Underground Railroad House
I am often on the prowl for historically interesting houses. This past December, when I returned to my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio for the winter break, I got the unexpected chance to tour…
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What I Have Learned from Readers of The Cherokee Rose (Part 1)
Since the release of my first novel, The Cherokee Rose, just over a year ago, I have had an amazing opportunity that I never expected when I was solely writing academic histories. I…
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Imagining The Future of the African American Past
I was humbled and honored to participate in the landmark African American history symposium, The Future of the African American Past, sponsored by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and…
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Exorcising the Slave Mistress Ghost
The rise of dark tourism at historic sites is a concern for some historians who worry that by replacing historical tours with ghost tours, we are losing opportunities for public dialogue about serious…
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Reflections on the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Conference
(And a Note on the Name of Mary Ann Battis) In late May of 2015, I was an invited speaker at the Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Conference held at Langston University’s Oklahoma…
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Jinx and Ruth: What’s Up With That?
SPOILER ALERT: This blog post contains numerous plot details from my novel, The Cherokee Rose! If you don’t want to know yet, stop reading now! During the Q & A after a recent…
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Reflections on a Black Feminist Think Tank
I have always wanted to participate in a think tank, a gathering of people with shared purpose and focused minds. But think tanks, it seemed, were only for political strategists and well-funded centers…
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Writing The Cherokee Rose
The Cherokee Rose began with a history that began with the voice of a slave. In the late 1990s, I was a graduate student researching my dissertation on the subject of slavery in…
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Gardens of Memory
Photo credit: Black-eyed Susans in field, photo by Martin van der Grintin@USDA-NRCS PLANTS database. The first image that flooded my mind for the novel that would eventually become The Cherokee Rose appeared unbidden.…