A 600-mile journey along the shores of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana and Ivory Coast reveals one of the world's most consequential transformations.

En suivant la trace de Casimir Fidèle, né vers 1748 dans les environs de l’actuel Bénin, l’historienne Julie Duprat raconte la destinée exceptionnelle d’un homme réduit en esclavage dès l’enfance. (…)

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

Dans leur livre « France/Algérie, anatomie d’une déchirure », les historiens remontent à la source de la blessure coloniale pour éclairer les soubresauts de l’actualité.

If we are to save area studies programs, it will fall to universities to recognize their value, Amanda Lanzillo writes.

If we want to solve injustices in Africa today, we cannot forget the injustices that shaped our shared history, says Ghana’s president, John Dramani Mahama

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism.

Amherst, Massachusetts, Job no: 526190 Work type: Faculty Full Time Location: UMass Amherst Department: History Union: MSP Categories: College of Humanities & Fine Arts, Tenure Track About UMass Amherst UMass Amherst, the Commonwealth's flagship…

Abstract During the 1920s and early 1930s, W.E.B. Du Bois regularly turned his attention to the question of Liberia and specifically to the fragility of Liberian sovereignty in the imperial world. The...

One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2025 by Foreign Policy “Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” —Davi...

Professors are struggling to teach Gen Z

Accountability and test-based reforms, pandemic-era disruptions, and larger social and economic pressures have fostered ineffective habits.

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W.E.B. Du Bois, the African American sociologist and historian and a cofounder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was fond

Lawmakers approve a tough new bill, but rights groups say it threatens basic freedoms.

This Long Overdue tribute honors historian Merze Tate, who died in 1996.