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White World Order, Black Power Politics: An Interview with Robert Vitalis

March 3, 2016March 4, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This month, I had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Professor Robert Vitalis on his recent book, White World Order, Black

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Reconsidering Malcolm X and Islam

February 8, 2016February 9, 2016 Guest Poster Malcolm X, Nation of Islam

This is a guest post by Garrett Felber, a scholar of 20th century African American history at the University of Michigan

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Birmingham in Five Acts

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 Brandon Byrd Civil Rights Movement, convict leasing, mass incarceration, South

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named

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“Bringer of Problems”: Charles H. Long and the Basic Question of Humanity

December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 Chris Cameron

Today’s guest post was written by Corey D. B. Walker, Dean of the College and John W. and Anna Hodgin

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AAIHS OFFICERS

Current Executive Board President: Shaun Armstead  Shaun Armstead is a historian of twentieth-century Black women’s internationalism She earned her PhD

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