Black Lives Matter
The Department of History would like to recognize the significance of the Black Lives Matter Movement. We hope the lecture series and reading recommendations will help create valuable connections to this movement and many facets of history.
Lecture Series
Our final lecture, On Black Joy, is presented by Siobhan Carter - David. To view our entire archive, please visit the Department of History YouTube channel.
Reading Recommendations
| Recommended Reading | Author | Faculty/Alumni |
| A Journey to Freedom: Richard Oakes, Alcatraz, and the Red Power Movement | Kent Blansett | Steve Amerman |
| AHA Stamement on Racist Violence | ||
| Black Lives in Asylum Fiction | Troy Rondinone | Troy Rondinone |
| Bloods an Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans | Wallace Terry | C. Michele Thompson |
| Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 | John Wood Sweet | Donald Yacovone |
| Che Guevara Reader: Writings on Politics and Revolution | Ernesto 'Che' Guevara | Carmen Coury |
| Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England | Siobhan Senier (editor) | Steve Amerman |
| Delia's Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America | Molly Rogers | Donald Yacovone |
| Dissent in America: The Voices that Shaped a Nation | Ralph Young (editor) | Jason Smith |
| From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America | Elizabeth Hinton | Jason Smith |
| How the Irish Became White | Noel Ignatitev | Daisha Brabham |
| Impossible Subjects:Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America | Mae Ngai | Carmen Coury |
| Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee | Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior | Steve Amerman |
| Model City Blues: Urban Space and Organized Resistance in New Haven | Mandi Isaacs Jackson | Jason Smith |
| Simple Justice | Richard Kluger | Julian Madison |
| Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi | Donald Yacovone |
| The Day - Historians wonder: Is this a watershed moment? |
Siobhan Carter-David and David Canton |
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| The History of White People | Nell Irvin Painter | Daisha Brabham and Donald Yacovone |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | C. Michele Thompson |
| The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit | Thomas Sugrue | Carmen Coury |
| The Pig Farmer's Daughter | Mary Frances Berry | Julian Madison |
| The Wages of Whiteness | David Roediger | Carmen Coury |
| The Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon | Carmen Coury |
| White Rage | Carol Anderson | Daisha Brabham |