Wheat argues that the extensive participation of Luso-Africans, Latinized Africans, and free people of color made possible Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

The things that make people academics do not necessarily make them good teachers...

Rwanda and South Africa have some of the highest rates of women’s political representation in the world, with significant growth particularly in the last 20 years...

Dag Hammarskjold was such a dynamic secretary-general that for years, the motto about him was simply “Leave it to Dag.”

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed...

The history of black food traditions can be most accurately conceptualized as a web of ongoing conversations, debates, and reinventions...

Legassie talks about medieval travel, especially long distance travel, and the way it was feared, praised, and sometimes treated with suspicion.

The story of Morocco’s independence struggle against France and Spain is a complicated one...

Baer examines the threads of shared ideology in the Herero and Nama genocide and the Holocaust...