Videos

Professors and researchers discussed new insights from research on the DNA of enslaved Africans American ironmakers at Catoctin Furnace, Maryland. This video was provided by Harvard’s Initia…

The Association of Black Women Historians celebrated the careers and legacies of historians Paula Giddings, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and Deborah Gray White. This event took place at the A…

In commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the beginning of forced migration of Africans to North America, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History hosted a panel…

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History, known as ASALH, held its 103rd annual meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. This program featured a history of the Smithsonian…

2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the forced migration of Africans to the Virginia Colony in 1619. The Association for the Study of African American Life and History hosted their 93rd annu…

Representatives of the National Park Service and preservation foundations discussed how African American soldiers are commemorated in public spaces. This was part of the annual meeting of th…

Panelists talked about the role of religion in the lives of African Americans. “What is African American Religion?” was a session of “The Future of the African American Past,” a conferenc…

Editors-in-chief Henry Louis Gates and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham talked about African American National Biography. The collection, written by 1,000 scholars, includes the biographies of ove…

Co-editprs Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham talked about their book African American Live, published by Oxford University Press. It is an encyclopedia-like compilation o…

Scholars talked about African-American participation in the legal profession and what the black community should expect from black lawyers. Following their remarks they answered questions fr…

Portraying African-American historical figures, participants had a conversation about African-American history in order to provide an insight into the current status of African-Americans and…