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Congratulations to Dr. Araujo (@araujohistorian) 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.
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Antonio Austin, a doctoral candidate in @HowardUHistory , 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!
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Cheryl Hawkins, a doctoral candidate in @HowardUHistory 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!
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We @HowardUHistory 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
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.
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You can get Jody Benjamin's The Texture of Change here ohioswallow.com/978082142547… below my signed copy from the ASA meeting of last December and Jody with dear Nemata Blyden a longtime friend of my seminar.
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Highlights of the latest session of the @HowardUHistory 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!
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I am looking forward to this opportunity to work on my next book! Thanks to the NEH!
Join us in congratulating Dr. @DrPreston1913! 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.
Join us in congratulating Dr. @DrPreston1913! 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.
Join us in congratulating our own Dr. Nathalie Pierre (Assistant Professor) was awarded a New Directions Fellowship from the @MellonFdn. Dr. Pierre will pursue legal education to sharpen her analysis of Haitian legislation for her forthcoming book!
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Congratulations to Dr. Nathalie Frédéric Pierre on receiving the New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation!
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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). 🎉
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).
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Homecoming: Thank you @HowardU 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
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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 @HowardUHistory students for always doing great work in the field!
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This Wednesday, February 19, join me in person at @HowardU 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
An inaugural @ACLS1919 HBCU Faculty Fellow, @HowardU @HowardUHistory Professor @araujohistorian's research is featured at @ACLS1919 newsletter, check it out acls.org/news/inaugural-acls…
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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, 1700-1850 (Ohio University Press, 2024) was rescheduled for March 12, 2025, WED, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at the Howard University Frederick Undergraduate Library, Multipurpose Room G007/008. Therefore you have one additional month to get the book and come to the seminar on fire to discuss the book! See you all in person on March 12 !
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Tomorrow, join me and Herman Bennett to discuss Humans in Shackles at @nypl Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library ⬇️
On February 5, author and professor Ana Lucia Araujo joins us to discuss her new book, 'Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery,' with fellow scholar Herman L. Bennett.
Register now for the free event: on.nypl.org/3Ej9FhW
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Please RT: Tomorrow at @HowardU Founders Library: book talk with Professor @JusteneHEdwards #slaveryarchive
