Featured Books - AAIHS

A Tool for Our Times: Legacies of Black Radicalism and Communism

October 19, 2018November 3, 2018 John Munro black radical tradition, Black radicalism

Speaking recently about “Mapping Communist Internationalism and Class Struggle Then and Now” at the social movement incubator that is The

Black Women in the Army during World War II

October 17, 2018November 3, 2018 Natalie Shibley Black women

Sandra M. Bolzenius’s Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II details

Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

A History of Slavery in the United States

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn slavery

This is an excerpt from Calvin Schermerhorn’s Unrequited Toil: A History of United States Slavery (Cambridge University Press, 2018). This excerpt has been reprinted

The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in