African American History survey - AAIHS

The United States and Colonial Zimbabwe: Pan-African Linkages

In 1965, the racially-driven political crisis in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) entered a dramatic new

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

This month I interviewed the scholar-activist Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald McWorter) about his new website and his life of scholarship

During the 1980s and 1990s, African American AIDS activists used Black gay history as a tool in the fight against AIDS.

Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which