Please RT: Tomorrow at Howard University Founders Library: book talk with Professor Justene Hill Edwards #slaveryarchive

Tomorrow, join me and Herman Bennett to discuss Humans in Shackles at NY Public Library Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library ⬇️

Dear all, due to snow storm expected for tomorrow, the next Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas," with Dr. Jody Benjamin, Associate Professor, Department of History on his new book "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa,

An inaugural ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellow, Howard University History Department Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD's research is featured at ACLS newsletter, check it out acls.org/news/inaugural…

This Wednesday, February 19, join me in person at Howard University Library, 5:00 PM for a talk on my book Humans in Shackles as part of HU University Libraries Black History Month Series 2025 #slaveryarchive

Homecoming: Thank you Howard University Libraries for featuring my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (UChicagoPress) in its #BlackHistoryMonth Series yesterday: had a blast seeing my book receiving so much love at the home that gave birth to it ♥️ #slaveryarchive

Congratulations to Amarhi Stevenson and Daryn Dickens on being selected to members of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History inaugural Undergraduate Advisory Council! We are so proud of our History Department students for always doing great work in the field!

Join us on March 12 for the Slavery Seminar to discuss Dr. Jody Benjamin's new book (this seminar was originally scheduled for February 12 but snow and campus closure changed our plans).

Congratulations to Professor Nikki M. Taylor, former Chair of the Department of History, who was elected as a new Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (United Kingdom). 🎉

Congratulations to Dr. Nathalie Frédéric Pierre on receiving the New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation! History Department

Join us in congratulating our own Dr. Nathalie Pierre (Assistant Professor) was awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation. Dr. Pierre will pursue legal education to sharpen her analysis of Haitian legislation for her forthcoming book!

Join us in congratulating Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston, Ph.D.! She was awarded a prestigious NEH Faculty Fellowship to work on her second book project on Mary McCleod Bethune’s work with the Democratic Party.

I am looking forward to this opportunity to work on my next book! Thanks to the NEH!

Highlights of the latest session of the History Department Seminar "Slavery, Memory, and African Diasporas" with dear colleague Jody Benjamin on his new book The Texture of Change 2 weeks ago, am late, forgot phone, car keys, everything that day, so borrowed phone to take pictures!

You can get Jody Benjamin's The Texture of Change here ohioswallow.com/9780821425473/… below my signed copy from the ASA meeting of last December and Jody with dear Nemata Blyden a longtime friend of my seminar.

Don't miss the 2nd Annual Moorland Spingarn Research Center Distinguished Scholar Lecture with our dear Department of History alumn Dr. Robert Vinson (Professor at the University of Virginia) on April 10 (Thursday) at 2:30 PM.

We History Department had an excellent turnout for our program with Dean Jones! Students were able to ask questions about how to prepare for & select a law school and about potential opportunities at Drake University. We really appreciate the Dean for taking the time

Antonio Austin, a doctoral candidate in History Department , has successfully defended his dissertation titled “…A White Man Can Do What He Pleases with a Colored Man or Woman…”: Black North Carolinians’ Experience with the Law from 1790 - 1860.” Congrats Dr. Austin!

Cheryl Hawkins, a doctoral candidate in History Department successfully defended her dissertation titled “The Enduring Legacy of Parker-Gray: A Twentieth History of the African American Community in Alexandria, Virginia, and Their Struggle for Public Education.”Congrats Dr. Hawkins!

Congratulations to Dr. Araujo (Ana Lucia Araujo, PhD) who was awarded a 2025 Guggenheim fellowship. Correction: Before that Charles Wesley (1930) and John Hope Franklin (1950) got this award. The first HBCU scholar to have been awarded a Guggenheim is Isaac Fisher from Fisk in 1925.