A Faithful Account of the Race
African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America (UNC Press, 2009), in the John Hope Franklin Series.
Historian · Editor · Public Humanist
Stephen G. Hall, Ph.D.
Writing and teaching about African American historical writing, Black intellectual life, and the African Diaspora — and carrying that scholarship into public life.
Selected work
Global Visions
African American Historians Write About the World, 1885–1960 — second book manuscript, begun as a National Humanities Center Fellow.
Historianspeaks
A web platform founded in 2020 with 1,800+ blogs and a podcast devoted to making Black History accessible to the public.
History as a communal act
Deeply interested in the tangible and practical meanings of the Humanities in public life, Hall has written for Black Perspectives, Public Books, Process, The North Star, and Bavual, The African Heritage Magazine, and appears regularly on radio and in community forums.
He is a graduate of the Honors Program at Morgan State University, holds an M.A. in African American Studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University.
- National Humanities Center Fellow, 2017–2018
- Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
- W.E.B. Du Bois Fellow, Harvard University
- Schomburg Fellow · NEH Fellow
- Carter G. Woodson Fellow, Emory University (MARBL)
- Humanities Writ Large Fellow, Duke University, 2015
- ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship Finalist, 2024