Free People of Color - AAIHS

A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama

While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I

The following remarks were delivered in June 2016 at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Meeting.

Think the current controversy over “black lives matter” is new? African American activists wrestled with the question almost 200 years

This is a guest post by Keri Leigh Merritt, a historian of the 19th c. American South. She received her

The nearing completion and grand opening of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.