Essays & Interviews


Short pieces and interviews published in Raritan, Rethinking History, Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere

Black History Talks with Professor Mari Crabtree
Black History Talks with Bernard Powers on OHM Radio 96.3
February 5, 2024
Interview with Mari N. Crabtree
Freedom Now! with Gerald Horne on KPFK-FM Los Angeles
December 30, 2023
Lynching in the American Imagination: A Historiographical Reexamination
Reconstruction beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom (UVA Press)
August 2023
Desegregation at the College of Charleston
Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
July 2023
African American Studies Professor Explores the Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
Speaking of…College of Charleston Podcast
June 13, 2023
Black Resistance and Lynching Memory: An Interview with Mari N. Crabtree (Part I | Part II)
Black Perspectives
May 2 & 3, 2023
My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
African American Studies New Books Network Podcast
April 8, 2023
The Unveiling of Saint Septima
Discovering Our Past
February 2023
A Witness in St. George
Yale University Press Blog
February 1, 2023
Mari Crabtree on My Soul Is a Witness: The Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
Conversations in Atlantic Theory
Ep. 61, January 26, 2023
The Ethics of Writing History in the Traumatic Afterlife of Lynching
Rethinking History
Vol. 24, Nos. 3–4 (2020)
Enduring Histories of Anti-Black Violence
Historian Speaks
July 11, 2020
The Art and Politics of Subterfuge in African American Culture
Raritan: A Quarterly Review
Vol. 38, No. 1 (Summer 2018)