African diaspora - AAIHS

Queen Elizabeth, Colonization, and Global Perceptions

The news of the passion of Britain’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, on September 8th sparked mixed feelings in

On September 2, the National Academy of History and the Venezuela History Network in Caracas announced the transcription and digitization

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past

McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver