Spring 2009

Letter from the Director
by Deborah E. McDowell
The Election is Still on my Mind (or Dreams of Change)

Changing History
by Ervin L. Jordan Jr.
The Armstead Robinson Papers

“Candy no witch”:
by Benjamin C. Ray
Two African Slaves Caught Up in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692

A Change We Need: Obama Nie, Atta Mills Nie. Yeresesamu
by Scot French
J-Term Students Find that Obama’s Message Translates Well in Ghana

‘Go There to Know There’
Lisa Woolfork discusses her new book, EMBODYING SLAVERY IN AMERICAN CULTURE, with Ashley Lewis

An Unexpected Discovery
by Elizabeth Gale-Bentz
An AAS Major Spends a Semester in Vienna

Angela Davis to Headline the Woodson Institute’s Spring Symposium
by Anne Bromley
“The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality and Justice”