Featured Books - AAIHS

Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets

Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,