Robert E. Weems Jr.
Volunteer History CommentatorRobert E. Weems Jr. is the Willard W. Garvey Distinguished Professor of Business History at Wichita State University.
His research specialty is African American business and economic history.
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A year ago, no one would have believed that Donald Trump would be the GOP front-runner this far into the primary season. Yet, fact can be stranger than…
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One of the constants of the post-slavery African American experience has been the positive role played by black women’s organizations in promoting…
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The underside of American history, as it relates to race relations, includes discourse regarding the alleged mental inferiority of people of African…
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A long-standing philosophical debate in American history involves people who believe in unfettered economic development versus those who believe that…
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Pope Francis’s recent triumphant visit to the United States, which included a speech to a joint session of Congress, suggests that one instance of…
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The embryonic Republican presidential primary season has witnessed the startling rise of Donald Trump in early polling. As the current frontrunner among a…
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The aftermath of the recent church massacre in Charleston, S.C., has featured renewed discussion concerning the appropriateness of publicly displaying the…
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Within the next couple weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will issue a decision regarding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as…
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On Saturday, April 11, at the Summit of the Americas meeting in Panama, U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro had the first…
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Since 1964, to assist in the development of small business in the United States, the Service Corps of Retired Executives, popularly known as SCORE, has…