Archive for March, 2009
Latest Issue of the AAHGS Journal Now Available to Members
At long last, the Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society has come back! Articles featured in Volume 26, Issue 1 are:
Narrative of a Former Slave’s Recollection, by Patricia Carter Slubly
Register of Colored Persons of Smyth County, State of Virginia Cohabitating Together as Husband and Wife on 27th February 1866, by Jeff Weaver
George William [...]
ASAALH Mourns the Passing of Dr. John Hope Franklin at 94.
From the ASAALH newsletter:
John Hope Franklin, the scholar who was a pioneer in the field of African American history and dominated it for nearly six decades, has died at the age of 94.
Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of History, was a scholar who brought intellectual rigor as well as an engaged passion to his [...]
January/February 2009 News at the Printer
For those of you waiting with baited breath — the January/February issue of AAHGS News is at the printer finally! We’re hopeful to return to a normal printing schedule with the March/April issue. Thank you for your patience!
Soon to follow: an index of the links for the Jan/Feb ‘09 issue.


