Nearly two years after establishing the department in 2024, DAAAS welcomed students and alumni to its permanent location in ...

Many scholars have studied the effects of colonial management on terrestrial resources, but what about the effect of colonialism on bodies of water? A new article in Isis: A Journal of the History of ...

The University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities recognizes "extraordinary faculty ...

New genetic and archaeological evidence is reshaping the long-standing narrative of the Neolithic Revolution in North Africa.

A small, newly uncovered document from ancient Dongola is reshaping what historians know about a little-understood period in ...

Prehistoric humans in Africa may have avoided areas infested with malaria-spreading mosquitoes, a new study suggests.

Dr. Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead, leader of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) ...

A decade ago Jua Power, a family-owned solar-energy firm, had little reason to leave China in search of customers. With the country in the midst of a green-energy boom, “we had plenty of orders ...

Explore the planned African Town Plaza, a new cultural hub in Cleveland celebrating pan-African heritage and community ...

The launch of ‘Project Freedom’ in the strait of Hormuz has brought the region back to the brink of war. Plus: The electoral battle for Congress ...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived—and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didn’t just threaten early ...

Researchers have found more than a hundred new genes that they believe are linked to schizophrenia. And part of the reason ...