Featured Books - AAIHS

African American Women on the American Railroad

September 19, 2023August 27, 2023 Daleah B. Goodwin antebellum, travel

Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad by Miriam Thaggert examines African American women’s engagement with the railroad

Online Roundtable–Lorgia García Peña’s ‘Translating Blackness’

September 5, 2023September 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #TranslatingBlackness, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx

September 11, 2023 to September 15, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting

W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War: An Interview with Chad L. Williams

August 29, 2023August 20, 2023 Brandon James Render W.E.B. Du Bois

This is an interview with Black Perspectives blogger Brandon James Render, an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the

Panama in Black as an Offering: An Author’s Response

June 2, 2023August 4, 2023 Kaysha Corinealdi #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, African Diaspora, Author Response, black internationalism, Panama

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. When I started writing Panama in Black

A Center of Afro-Diasporic Possibility

June 1, 2023May 30, 2023 Maya Doig-Acuña #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Panama

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. Every October since 1995, Panamanians in Brooklyn