📚Final selections for my grad course on African American women’s #history. Read with us! ♥️

👉🏾Today on Black Perspectives: Sean Gallagher reviews Tamika Y. Nunley’s new book, The Demands of Justice, a "ground-breaking legal #history of enslaved women’s resistance to #slavery and its gendered #violence." UNC Press AAIHS aaihs.org/enslaved-women…

i argue we're in a moment where legal histories of slavery are finally studying enslaved women as more than just objects of partus sequitur ventrem. Also that Black women are now at the forefront of slave law history as a field. (Tamika Nunley, Emily Owens, Martha Jones, + more)

On the latest episode of the Worthy Cause podcast with Preach Jacobs, assistant professor of history at Claflin University and president of the AAIHS Robert Greene II details why history can give us hope for the future.

👉🏾Today is the LAST DAY to submit your proposals for #AAIHS2025! Visit our website for more information: aaihs.org/conference-202…

🚨Submissions are now open for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize for the best journal article in Black intellectual history. 👉🏾Awarded to the author of the best article published in each volume of #GlobalBlackThought. Follow the link below for details. aaihs.org/accepting-subm…

Prize Opportunity!

The African American Intellectual History Society AAIHS is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize. The prize will be awarded to the author of the best article published in each volume of Global Black Thought 📚 Link for more info: aaihs.org/accepting-subm…

"Black women authors like Kaitlyn Greendige, Megan Giddings, and Dolen Perkins-Valdez have written novels that uplift forgotten histories of twentieth century experimentation, coercion, and medical malpractice on Black bodies." -- Norrell aaihs.org/black-womens-f…

👉🏾Today on Black Perspectives, Dr. Norrell Edwards highlights Black women's writings on the "ways vulnerable Black communities have been exploited and manipulated whether through financial or emotional means." AAIHS #Blackwomen #writers #history aaihs.org/black-womens-f…

So excited for this piece to come out highlighting novels by Kaitlyn Greenidge Megan Giddings and Dolen that engage underexamined histories of medical experimentation on Black Americans

We are very excited to host the launch of the Race and Regency Lab, which was created by Patricia Matthew (Montclair State University). Join us this Friday for this exciting event! Full details here> jcblibrary.org/events/launch-…

I love the way fiction can make history feel emotional, current, and important - here is an article on fiction written by Black women featuring and highlighting themes of historical medical experimentation aaihs.org/black-womens-f…

📚Today on Black Perspectives: Michael L. Dickinson reviews Leslie Alexander's book "Fear of a Black Republic," and discusses how "she works to tell the complex story of #Haiti and its struggle to survive as an inspiration for Black Americans..." Illinois Press #history aaihs.org/haiti-and-the-…

A candid and in-depth interview about Cervantine Blackness: fas.yale.edu/exploring-blac…

“People of African descent in the United States have viewed the first independent Black republic in the Western hemisphere as a solitary glimmer of hope amidst the evils of slavery and racial oppression—a true land of liberty where racial injustice could be a distant nightmare.”

📚We're so excited to feature an "author meets engaged readers" session on Dr. Jones's new book at #AAIHS2025! 👏🏾👏🏾

📚Cindy N. Reed writes, “Acknowledging [Eve] Ewing’s comic book series as fiction expands our scope of where and how we reflect on key issues and behaviors central to representations of Black female experiences,” today on Black Perspectives. Read more: loom.ly/Av_OdSU

✍🏾Today on Black Perspectives, Tanguay GIL writes, “Writing was an act of resistance, and using the French language was an act of identity affirmation, in a region more and more prone to Anglo-American influence.” Read more: loom.ly/QxEKCZ0 @aaihs 📚