Paddington Bear and Black British Migration Politics
This year, the United Kingdom celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee, acknowledging the achievement of a billionaire remaining alive for
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African diaspora
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
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Marriage and Slavery in Colonial Venezuela
On September 2, the National Academy of History and the Venezuela History Network in Caracas announced the transcription and digitization
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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology
In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.
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CFP: Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy
Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past
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