Year End Review: History For All
How we told history this year
“History is not just about what happened, but also about who gets to tell the story and how they frame it.”
- Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
Here are some highlights from 2024!
Top Posts
These are the posts you all loved the most in 2024:
🎙️Podcast/Audio Series
This year we explored a narrative history of diaspora and uplifted the historical contributions of black women through a docu-series!
100 Historic Black Women You Should Know by Election Day
This wonderful docu-series is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube! For those on Spotify, your favorite episode was Ann Lowe (I heard a movie is in the works 👀), the woman behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding dress!
Reading Lists
Here are some of your favorite reading lists I’ve curated for you all:
Essay Collections by Black Women
Community Reads
Our community shared over 300 books that you were currently reading this year! One of my favorite things to do on Sunday evenings is to read your replies containing what books you’re currently reading!
2025
A special thanks to everyone who Bought Me a Coffee or bought a book through my Bookshop affiliate link this year! As a full-time PhD candidate, this support helped me invest in new podcast equipment and dedicate more time to this newsletter!
There are a lot of great plans in development for 2025 and I’m excited to continue our mission of making history as accessible as possible to as many as possible
See you in the new year,
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