Hard Histories: A Conversation with Martha S. Jones

March 18, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Join Dean Eliot A. Cohen and Martha S. Jones, the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, Professor of History, and Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University, for a discussion on black American history and beyond. The conversation will highlight the school’s founder (Johns Hopkins) history of slave ownership, contrary to the long-held belief that the wealthy philanthropist was a staunch abolitionist. The researchers, led by Professor Jones, made the revelation after exploring previously undiscovered government census records as part of a university-led project on the school's history.

Professor Jones is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020), selected as one of Time's 100 must-read books for 2020.  Her 2018 book, Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (2018), was winner of the Organization of American Historians Liberty Legacy Award (best book in civil rights history), the American Historical Association Littleton-Griswold Prize (best book in American legal history), the American Society for Legal History John Phillip Reid book award (best book in Anglo-American legal history) and the Baltimore City Historical Society Scholars honor for 2020. Professor Jones is also author of All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (2007) and a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press (2015), together with many articles and essay.

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Location: Online SAIS Event