Susan HodgesMar 10

Understanding the roots of our social and religious institutions is essential for navigating the present. 🏛️🌿

I’m sharing a thoughtful new piece by Mary Venable Vaughn: "Key Figures Who Shaped the AME Movement." It is a straightforward, an excellent resource for those interested in the intersection of faith, history, and social progress.

Full article here:
🔗 https://www.maryvv.com/key-figures-who-shaped-the-ame-movement/

#History #PublicInterest #AMEChurch #MaryVaughn #SocialJustice #BiographicalHistory

Wm.sonOct 21, 2024

#Quotes #History #Boneheads #TeachingHistory #BiographicalHistory #MartinGardner

Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals, the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great creative scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned if at all. -Martin Gardner, mathematician and writer (21 Oct 1914-2010)

Show threadkilombavitaApr 22, 2023

https://archive.org/details/aa-in-h

African Americans in Hawaiʻi: A Search for Identity by Ayin M. Adams; Aaron L. Day; Indira Hale Tucker; Kathryn Waddell Takara

Topics
#Hawaii, #historyofHawaii, #Africandiaspora, #Pacifichistory, #historyofthepacific, #Africanamerikan, #Africanamerikans, #biographies, #biographicalhistory, #biographicalhistories, #colonialism, #imperialism, #usimperialism, #uscolonialism, #usempire, #antiblackness, #colorism, #Blackhistory

African Americans in Hawaiʻi: A Search for Identity : Ayin M. Adams : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

In this book, Adams presents a collection of essays on Hawaiian and Black histories in the Islands, discusses the historical keepers of black culture,...

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