#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History
The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months
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Abolitionism
State Violence and the Canudos Massacre in Brazil
In April of 1897, General Artur Oscar de Andrade Guimarães began preparing for an expedition that would carry he and
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James Pennington’s Fight for African Slave Trade Refugees
In the hot summer of 1860, Americans confronted an urgent refugee crisis. Over 1,400 young and destitute Africans, seized by
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Never Caught: A New Book on George Washington’s Pursuit of His Runaway Slave
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick”
Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington
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