Eve Ewing, Ironheart, and Black Women’s Fiction
Contemporary Black women writers weave words into imaginary worlds to create fiction that defies neat, tidy genre distinctions. Comic books,
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Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But
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Black Women’s Fiction and Medical Experimentation
The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare existing racial inequalities in our healthcare system. The magnified death toll for Black and Brown
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Accepting Submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize for the best
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Enslaved Women’s Resistance to Slavery and Gendered Violence
In the past decade, scholars of Early America have produced a series of subaltern studies on enslaved women before the
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