The International Society for Chinese Law and History (ISCLH) is delighted to announce the results of its Biennial Book Prize competition for books bearing a 2024 or 2025 copyright date.The prize comm...

Betye Saar, a Los Angeles artist who transformed collections of bigoted bric-a-brac — Sambo dolls, ceramic mammies, and crude renderings of pickaninnies — into potent works of assemblage that mined th...

Often performing barefoot, she provided the thunder for a breakout feminist band of the 1990s, which had an alternative hit with “Pretend We’re Dead.”

The Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award is an annual prize that encourages scholarship and writing within the field of African American history and culture by awarding a $25,000...

Martin Dobrow is an award-winning author, journalist, and professor who excavates extraordinary American stories at the intersection of civil rights, sports, and social justice. Author of Original Cit...

Statements From American Council of Learned Societies, American Historical Association, and Modern Language Association on the Ruling FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 7, 2026 - This afternoon US District J...

For 74 days in 1810 the current-day parishes of East and West Feliciana in New Orleans were part of the independent Republic of West Florida, which flew a lone star…

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the ninth annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history. Named after...

New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish