African diaspora - AAIHS

A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama

While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I

As many scholars of early African American life can attest, one of the most vexing aspects of doing research is

This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing–announcing the publication of selected new books

This is a guest post by Peter Cole, a historian of the twentieth-century United States, South Africa and comparative history.