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Tiya Miles

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There Is Room for Our Black Heroes To Be Human

“Night Flyer” expands Harriet Tubman’s legacy to include her family, community and “eco-spiritual worldview.”

by Tiya Miles, Keishel A. Williams via The Emancipator on June 27, 2024
How a Young Harriet Tubman Found Solace in Syncretic Religion

Childhood trauma led Minty Ross (Harriet Tubman) to seek divine intervention.

by Tiya Miles via Literary Hub on June 18, 2024
How Bondage Built the Church

Swarns’s book about a sale of enslaved people by Jesuit priests to save Georgetown University reminds us that the legacy of slavery is the legacy of resistance.

by Tiya Miles via New York Review of Books
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on May 2, 2024
The Great American Poet Who Was Named After a Slave Ship

A new biography of Phillis Wheatley places her in her era and shows the ways she used poetry to criticize the existence of slavery.

by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic
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on April 22, 2023
How the Survivors of Slavery Used Material Objects to Preserve Intergenerational Wisdom

On the importance of material ownership in the context of Black history.

by Tiya Miles via Literary Hub on September 26, 2022
The Ohio River

When the river freezes, lives change.

by Tiya Miles via Perspectives on History on January 27, 2022
Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies

The island was once a place of working-class ingenuity and Black daring.

by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic
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on August 30, 2021
To Find the History of African American Women, Look to Their Handiwork

Our foremothers wove spiritual beliefs, cultural values, and historical knowledge into their flax, wool, silk, and cotton webs.

by Tiya Miles via The Atlantic
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on June 8, 2021
Talk of Souls in Slavery Studies

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Tiya Miles, Jim Knable via Medium on February 26, 2019
Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

by Robert G. Parkinson, Annette Gordon-Reed, Claudio Saunt, Peter S. Onuf, Jack Rakove, Alexander Tsesis, Karin Wulf, Tiya Miles, Caitlin Fitz, Johann N. Neem, Robert Allison, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Gautham Rao, Seth Cotlar, Manuel Covo, Kathleen DuVal, Maya Jasanoff, Zara Anishanslin, Steven Pincus, Carla Gardina Pestana, Andrew Schocket, Sara Georgini, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Nicole Eustace via Declaration Resources Project on June 1, 2017

All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People

The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits

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This Day: A History Show

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This Day: A History Show

A Nation Of Readers: The Gaps In History

History is pieced together from incomplete, biased, and often accidental sources, from family memories and heirlooms to official archives. Historians must balance imagination with skepticism to interpret these fragments and shape the stories we tell. This episode explores that process through Tiya Miles' work on family artifacts and Kathleen DuVal's examination of colonial records about Native nations.

June 21, 2026

Harriet Tubman.

The Radical Faith of Harriet Tubman

A new book conveys in dramatic detail what America’s Moses did to help abolish slavery. Another addresses the love of God and country that helped her do so.

by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on June 24, 2024

Harriet Tubman with family at her home in Auburn, NY circa 1885.

The Rescuer

In search of the Underground Railroad’s legendary conductor.

by Danielle Amir Jackson via The American Scholar on June 3, 2024

A Romantic Union? Thoughts on Plantation Weddings from a Photographer/Historian

Plantations are not "charming" or "tranquil" wedding venues. They were gruesome labor camps profiting off of enslaved labor.

by John R. Legg via National Council on Public History on February 24, 2020

How a Court Answered a Forgotten Question of Slavery’s Legacy

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a battle over a related question was finally put to rest.

by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on September 11, 2017

Enslaved Africans on a dock, having disembarked a ship guarded by their captors.

Looking Back at 1619 in 2019–2021, and Beyond

1619 Project reignited debate over slavery’s origins, exposing tensions between continuity vs change in U.S. history and competing “origin stories.”

by David Waldstreicher via Reviews In American History on March 16, 2026

Illustration of a white hand holding a prostrate American Indian woman in a southwestern landscape.

The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement

Indigenous slavery, which lasted for centuries, has gone by many names. A new public history project wants us to see it for what it was.

by Geraldo Cadava via The New Yorker on February 26, 2026

Portrait of Creek men.

A Federal Court Has Ruled Blood Cannot Determine Tribal Citizenship. Here’s Why That Matters.

The struggle over blood and belonging in American Indian communities.

by Alaina E. Roberts via Made By History on March 9, 2024

Cutouts of Ulysses S. Grant and Julia Dent Grant in front of slave quarters.

Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant's Complex Relationship With Slavery

The Union general directly benefited from the brutal institution before and during the Civil War.

by John Reeves via Smithsonian Magazine on December 5, 2023

Picture of the statue of Black Hawk.

Remembering Black Hawk

A history of imperial forgetting.

by David R. Roediger via Boston Review on March 1, 2022

Painting of Southern wooded landscape.

The Haunting of Drums and Shadows

On the stories and landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project left unexplored.

by Sam Worley via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 11, 2020

Vast Early America

Three simple words for a complex reality.

by Karin Wulf via Humanities on February 1, 2019

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