Featured Books - AAIHS

The Politics of Poor Whiteness

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Jeff Forret #MasterlessMen, capitalism, electoral politics, slavery, South, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Occasionally a book comes along at a timely historical moment.

Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2018March 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the first annual Pauli Murray Book

Slavery and the History of Abolition: An Interview with Manisha Sinha

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, slavery

In today’s post, Rebecca Brenner, a PhD candidate in the Department of History at American University, interviews Manisha Sinha on

The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Book on Black Women’s Travels Abroad

March 2, 2018March 5, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black women, blackness, Jamaica, travel

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

Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor