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Wesley Logan Prize
The Wesley Logan Prize is an annual prize given to a historian by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Association for the Study of Afro-American Life & History Background The Wesley-Logan Prize is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book in African diaspora history. The prize was established in 1992 in memory of two early pioneers in history, Charles H. Wesley and Rayford W. Logan. Eligibility The nominated books must have been published between May 1 of the previous year and April 30 of the entry year. Notable winners Past winners of the prize include: * 2022 - Yesenia Barragan, ''Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific'' * 2021 - Jessica Marie Johnson, ''Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World'' * 2020 - Benjamin Talton, ''In This Land o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time. Some historians are recognized by publications or training and experience.Herman, A. M. (1998). Occupational outlook handbook: 1998–99 edition. Indianapolis: JIST Works. Page 525. "Historian" became a professional occupation in the late nineteenth century as research universities were emerging in Germany and elsewhere. Objectivity During the ''Irving v Penguin Books and Lipstadt'' trial, people became aware that the court needed to identify what was an "objective historian" in the same vein as the reasonable person, and reminiscent of the standard traditionally used in English law of "the man on the Clapham omnibus". This was necessary so that there would be a legal benchmark to compare and contrast the scholar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association For The Study Of African American Life And History
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) is an organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of African-American History. It is a non-profit organization founded in Chicago, Illinois, on September 9, 1915, during the National Half Century Exposition and Lincoln Jubilee, and incorporated in Washington, D.C., on October 2, 1915, as the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) by Carter G. Woodson, William B. Hartgrove, George Cleveland Hall, Alexander L. Jackson, and James E. Stamps. The association is based in Washington, D.C. In 1973, ASNLH was renamed the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. ASALH's official mission is "to promote, research, preserve, interpret, and disseminate information about Black life, history, and culture to the global community." Its official vision is "to be the premier Black Heritage and learned society with a diverse and inclusive membership supported by a strong net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Historical Association
The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional standards, and support scholarship and innovative teaching. It publishes ''The American Historical Review'' four times a year, with scholarly articles and book reviews. The AHA is the major organization for historians working in the United States, while the Organization of American Historians is the major organization for historians who study and teach about the United States. The group received a congressional charter in 1889, establishing it "for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts, and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history, and of history in America." Current activities As an umbrella organization for the discipline, the AHA works with other major histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Diaspora
The African diaspora is the worldwide collection of communities descended from native Africans or people from Africa, predominantly in the Americas. The term most commonly refers to the descendants of the West and Central Africans who were enslaved and shipped to the Americas via the Atlantic slave trade between the 16th and 19th centuries, with their largest populations in the United States, Brazil and Haiti. However, the term can also be used to refer to the descendants of North Africans who immigrated to other parts of the world. Some scholars identify "four circulatory phases" of this migration out of Africa. The phrase ''African diaspora'' gradually entered common usage at the turn of the 21st century. The term ''diaspora'' originates from the Greek (''diaspora'', literally "scattering") which gained popularity in English in reference to the Jewish diaspora before being more broadly applied to other populations. Less commonly, the term has been used in scholarship to r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles H
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayford W
Rayford is both a given name and surname. People Given name *Rayford Barnes (1920-2000), American film and TV character actor * Rayford Cooks (born 1962), American football player * Rayford B. High Jr., American bishop *Rayford Logan (1897-1982), African-American historian and Pan-African activist * Rayford Petty, American college football coach * Rayford Price (1937-2023), American politician * Rayford Jeffrey Ray, American bishop *Ray Robinson (Australian cricketer) (1914-1965), Australian cricketer *Trae Young (Rayford Trae Young, born 1998), American basketball player Surname *Alma Rayford (1903-1987), American silent film actress *Caesar Rayford (born 1986), American football defensive lineman with the Utah Blaze of the AFL *Floyd Rayford (born 1957), African-American retired Major League Baseball player *Robert Rayford (1953-1969), American teenager and earliest confirmed HIV/AIDS case in North America *Sugaray Rayford (born 1969), American singer and songwriter Fictional *Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Ferrer
Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University. She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book ''Cuba: An American History''. Early life She was born in Havana, Cuba, migrated to the United States in 1963, and grew up in West New York, New Jersey. Ferrer holds an AB degree in English from Vassar College, 1984, an MA degree in History from University of Texas at Austin, 1988, and a PhD in History from the University of Michigan, 1995. Career She is currently a Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University. She has won the 2015 Frederick Douglass Prize for her book ''Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution''. The book also won the Friedrich Katz, Wesley Logan Prize, Wesley Logan, and James A. Rawley Prize (AHA), James A. Rawley prizes from the American Historical Association and the Haiti Illumination Prize from the Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Biondi
Martha Biondi is an American historian. She is the Lorraine H. Morton Professor of African American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University. Biography Biondi was raised in Connecticut. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. Her specialization is 20th-century African American history with a focus on social movements. She served as chair of Northwestern University's African American studies department. Biondi won the Wesley Logan Prize from the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life for her book, ''The Black Revolution on Campus'' (2014), which documented the history of black student activism in American campuses. She also received a 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award for her book, ''To Stand and Fight: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City'' (2003). She was the partner of James Thindwa James Thindwa is a community organizer in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylviane Diouf
Sylviane Anna Diouf is a historian and curator of the African diaspora. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University and a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. Her contribution as a social historian, she stressed, "may be the uncovering of essential stories and topics that were overlooked or negated, but which actually offer new insights into the experience of the African Diaspora. A scholar said my work re-shapes and re-directs our understanding of this history; it shifts our attention, corrects the historical record, and reveals hidden and forgotten voices." Early life and education Diouf was born in France, the daughter of a Senegalese physicist and a French school principal. She is a descendant of Khaly Amar Fall (1555-1638) founder, in 1603, of Pir, the Senegalese institute of higher Islamic studies. Historical figures such as Sulayman Bal and Abdel Kader Kane who blocked t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Arnesen
Eric Arnesen (born 30 April 1958) is an American historian. He is currently the James R. Hoffa Professor of Modern American Labor History at George Washington University. He was a Fulbright Scholar, and is a member of the Organization of American Historians. Life Arnesen completed his BA degree from Wesleyan University in 1980. He completed his MA in Afro-American Studies from Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ... in 1984. He received his Ph.D in History from Yale University in 1986. Bibliography * " 'Like Banquo's Ghost, It Will Not Down': The Race Question and the American Railroad Brotherhoods, 1880-1920." ''American Historical Review'' 99.5 (1994): 1601-1633online * ''Waterfront Workers of New Orleans: Race, Class, and Politics, 1863-1923'' Ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Butler
Kim D. Butler (born 1960) is an American author and historian. Butler was awarded a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1996.''Directory of History Departments, Historical Organizations, and Historians'' (American Historical Association, 2005), p. 405. Her first book is ''Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador.'' This publication won the American Historical Association's Wesley Logan Prize and the Association of Black Women Historians' Letitia Woods Brown Prize. Currently, Butler is an associate professor of history in the Africana Studies department at Rutgers University. She was the third President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) 2011-2015. She was named a Fulbright Scholar The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip D
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly, Lip, Pip, Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great * Philip III of Macedon, half-brother of Alexander the Great * Philip IV of Macedon * Philip V of Macedon New Testament * Philip the Apostle * Philip the Evangelist Others * Philippus of Croton (c. 6th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
