Featured Books - AAIHS

Black Queer Southern Women: A New Book in Oral History

January 25, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane Black women, LGBT, oral history, sexuality

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

‘White Rebels in Black’: An Interview with Priscilla Layne

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Kira Thurman African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, race, racism, white supremacy

In today’s post, Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, interviews Priscilla

Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Jessica Parr fugitivity, law, Resistance, slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

Them Goon Rules: A New Book On Radical Black Feminism

January 18, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane black feminism, Black Queers, Black Studies, sexuality

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

‘The Struggle is Eternal’: An Interview with Joseph R. Fitzgerald

January 14, 2019January 29, 2019 Ashley Farmer Activism, biography, Black Power, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow

In today’s post, Ashley Farmer, Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and African Diaspora Studies at the University of