Activism - AAIHS

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

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

Last year was incredibly difficult. There was something that seemed more painful than usual about the deluge of the twenty-four-hour

I am still sitting with the loss of Ashawnty Davis, the 10-year-old Black girl from Aurora, Colorado who ended her

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

Several weeks ago, I attended the opening activities for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. The museum represents a long-overdue,