Not Even Past
New Perspectives on American History
STEVEN HAHN and BARBARA SAVAGE discuss, “Rethinking African American Politics and Religion.”
Steven Hahn, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor in American History, is a specialist on the history of the American South, the history of the 19th-century United States, the international history of slavery and emancipation, and African American history. His book, A Nation Under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, won several prestigious awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for history. The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom is due to be published this year.
Barbara Savage, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought, teaches 20th-century African American history, the history of American religious and social reform movements and the history of the relationship between media and politics. She is the author of Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938 – 1948 and most recently, Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion.
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