The Alma Stephenson Dever Page – Perspectives Articles

Africans, African Americans, Great Britain and the United States: The Curious History of the Rio Pongo in the Early 19th Century
In the essay below, Bruce L. Mouser, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, describes the conflicting...
August 7th, 2013

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: For His Times and Ours
In the article below Hilary Burrage, Executive Chair of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, a United Kingdom (UK)-based non-profit organisation, describes...
May 8th, 2013

Fighting for Freedom on Both Sides of the American Revolution
Alan Gilbert, University of Denver political scientist and anti-racist activist, is the author of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for...
June 19th, 2012

Distant Whistles, Muted Flutes: Ada Wright in Glasgow, 1932
In the following account writer Irene Brown recalls through her father’s photo the visit of Ada Wright, mother to Roy...
July 25th, 2011