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Thank you very much for your interest in AAIHS membership. Since its debut in January 2014, AAIHS has quickly become a leader in the field and your support will help continue that important work. As a member, you will be able to take an active role in AAIHS initiatives by voting and running for offices in the organization. AAIHS members enjoy a wealth of benefits including the following:

A 20% discount on personal subscriptions to the Journal of Civil and Human Rights
A 20% discount on books from Cambridge University Press
A 30 % discount on books from the University of North Carolina Press
A 20 % discount on books from University of Georgia Press
A 20% discount on books from Northwestern University Press
A 20 % discount on books from New York University Press
A 30 % discount on books from Vanderbilt University Press
A 30 % discount on books from University of Illinois Press
A 30 % discount on books from University of Texas Press
Discount on registration for our annual conference
Eligibility for our awards, fellowships, and prizes

You can sign up through using one of the buttons below or send a check made out to AAIHS to:

AAIHS
P.O. Box 2310
Providence, RI 02906

Why You Should Join the African American Intellectual History Society

By Keisha N. Blain October 23, 2015 1

AAIHS Bloggers Greg Childs, Chris Bonner, Chris Cameron, and Kami Fletcher at the Society for U.S. Intellectual History conference.

At the recent conference of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), a few of our bloggers had the opportunity to discuss AAIHS with several academic publishers. We were excited to learn that acquisitions editors read the blog regularly and even used it as a recruiting tool for potential authors. One of these editors read a guest post on the blog a few months ago, contacted the author of the piece, and just signed a contract to publish his monograph with an academic press.

While this was an exciting discovery for us, it was by no means surprising. Since AAIHS was first established in January 2014, the organization has quickly emerged as a leader in the field and our blog is one of the most widely read academic blogs on the web. One participant at the ASALH conference noted that 80% of the African American history that he reads online comes directly from AAIHS.

We are incredibly proud of the impact that the AAIHS blog and organization has had on advancing the study of black intellectual history and supporting the careers of younger scholars in the field. We hope that you will be able to support our continued efforts by becoming a member of the organization today.

As a member, you will receive a discounted registration price for our annual conference and will be able to vote and run for future offices in the organization. Please follow the link below for additional information on how to become a member of AAIHS:

https://www.aaihs.org/membership-account/become-a-member/

Thank you for your support and we hope to see you at our first annual conference scheduled to take place at UNC Chapel Hill from March 10-11, 2016.

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Keisha N. Blain

Keisha N. Blain, a Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellow, is Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University. She is the author of several books—most recently of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America (Beacon Press, 2021). Her next book, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights, will be published by W.W. Norton in September 2025.

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