Call for Papers: AAIHS 2026 Conference

Call for Papers: AAIHS 2026 Conference

#AAIHS2026 The African American Intellectual History Society’s  Eleventh Annual Conference March 27-28, 2026 Pittsburgh, PA Theme: "Preserving Histories and Legacies ...
Online Roundtable–The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle

Online Roundtable–The Evolution of the Black Freedom Struggle

July 14th to July 18th, 2025 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is ...
Black Women’s Faith and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

Black Women’s Faith and Moral Leadership in the Civil Rights Movement

In 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly published Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who ...
PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA, November 4, 2016. A large statue of former South African president Nelson Mandela stands 9 meters tall in the middle of the Union Buildings in Pretoria

The Remains of Segregation and Apartheid in South Africa

In Apartheid Remains, geographer and interdisciplinary scholar Sharad Chari deftly navigates the sedimented terrain of twentieth-century South African apartheid and ...
The Launch of Global Black Thought: A New Journal from Penn Press

The Launch of Global Black Thought: A New Journal from Penn Press

After two years of planning and preparation, the new AAIHS journal Global Black Thought has officially launched! Published by the ...
Carceral Apartheid: An Interview with Brittany Friedman

Carceral Apartheid: An Interview with Brittany Friedman

In today’s post, Dr. Robert Greene II, the President of AAIHS and Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University, interviews award-winning ...