Featured Posts - AAIHS

To Exist is to Resist: A New Book on Black Feminism in Europe

July 26, 2019July 15, 2019 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Black Europe, black feminism, black politics, Black women, Resistance

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

White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law

July 25, 2019September 16, 2019 Terri L. Snyder capitalism, race, Race and Economic History, Racial Violence, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican clergyman Morgan Godwyn, who had ministered to parishes in Virginia and Barbados, recounted

‘I Have a Copyright’: Interview with Daniel Fleming, Winner of the 2019 Maria Stewart Prize

July 24, 2019July 26, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, archives, black politics, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., race

This is an interview with Dr. Daniel Fleming, whose article “‘I Have a Copyright’: The Privatization of Martin Luther King’s

Voices of Freedom Outside the South: An Oral History Resource

July 23, 2019July 15, 2019 Say Burgin archives, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, Civil Rights Movement, education, oral history, race, teaching

Some of my most exciting moments as an educator have been seeing how students engage with oral histories from the

Online Forum: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Marlon Riggs’s Tongues Untied

July 23, 2019July 28, 2019 AAIHS Editors #TonguesUntied30, art, Black cinema, Black film, Black Queers, film, Gender, race, sexuality

July 29–August 2, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum to commemorate