From Africa to America: African American History from the Colonial Era to the Early Republic, 1526-1790.

1998 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 519
Author(s):  
James Oliver Horton ◽  
William D. Piersen
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American History ◽  
Early Republic ◽  
African American History ◽  
Colonial Era

Minstrel-Soldiers: The Construction of African-American Identity in the Union Army

Prospects ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 109-136
Author(s):  
Matthew Conner
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Union Army ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Black Soldiers ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Mass Recruitment

The Emancipation of Slaves during the Civil War is celebrated as the pivotal event in African-American history. But this act overshadows another milestone of the war: the mass recruitment of blacks into the Union Army. Although blacks had fought alongside white soldiers since the colonial era, the Civil War was the first conflict in which blacks were enlisted in large numbers and recognized as regular soldiers in the army. By the war's end, black soldiers numbered 180,000 men and contributed crucially to the Union victory.

Synthetic learning environment games: Prototyping a humanities-based game for teaching African American history

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adams Greenwood-Ericksen ◽  
Stephen M. Fiore ◽  
Rudy McDaniel ◽  
Sandro Scielzo ◽  
Janis A. Cannon-Bowers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History

James Oliver Horton, 1943–2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melani McAlister
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
American History ◽  
African American History ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Us History ◽  
Local Branch ◽  
Gathering Place

In October 2017, hundreds of faculty, friends, and former students gathered at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) to remember James Oliver “Jim” Horton. It was a fitting gathering place. As the museum’s director, Lonnie Bunch, commented, Jim’s legacy is everywhere at the museum, from the fact that several of his former doctoral students are now curators to the foundational commitment of the museum itself: that African American history is not a local branch of US history but integral to its core. Jim always insisted in his lectures and classes and on his many TV appearances and public engagements that “American history is African American history.” 

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