Category: Research

“We White People Are Prejudiced” In June 1936, John J. Cunningham, a thirty-year-old blind Black man, attended a recreation night at the New York Association for the Blind (NYAB), also known as the “Lighthouse.” The event, held at NYAB’s Manhattan headquarters, left Cunningham deeply unsettled, as he discovered that he was in fact attending one… Continue Reading John Cunningham and the Struggle Against ‘Separate-But-Equal’ Colored-Blindness in Depression-Era New York City

Michael Wigglesworth (1631-1705) is most famous today for writing a book that became a bestseller throughout the colonized eastern Atlantic seaboard: The Day of Doom: or a Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment. This forbidding title underscores his function as Malden, Massachusetts’ primary clergyman: keeping his congregation toeing the line of God’s holy… Continue Reading “Physician, Heal Thyself”: Michael Wigglesworth, Puritan, Poet, and Physician