Publications

“Global Visions: African American Historians Write About the World, 1885–1960”

Manuscript in process, forthcoming

A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America

University of North Carolina Press, 2009 — John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture

“History as a Communal Act: African American History and Engaged Publics”

Under contract with Routledge Press

“Race Works: An Anthology of African American Historical Writing in the Nineteenth Century,” co-edited with John Ernest

In process

“Looking Forward to the Past: W.E.B. Du Bois and Intellectual Explorations in Black History,” co-edited with Philip Sinitiere

In process

“‘A Search for Truth:’ Jacob Oson and the Beginnings of Textual Historical Discourse Among African Americans in the Early Republic,” William and Mary Quarterly (January 2007): 139–148.

“To Render the Public Private: William Still and the Selling of the Underground Railroad,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 127 (January 2003): 35–56.

“Alrutheus Ambush Taylor: Black Intellectualism and the Remaking of Reconstruction Historiography, 1893–1954,” UCLA Historical Journal 16 (1996): 39–60.

Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall (intro) in Julian Rothenstein, ed., Black Lives: W.E.B. Du Bois at the Paris Exposition 1900 (London: Redstone Press, 2019).

“The Haitian and American Revolutions and Black Historical Writing at Mid-Century,” in Teresa Zackodnik, ed., African American Literatures in Transition, vol. 4, 1850–1865. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

“Envisioning an Antislavery War: African American Historical Constructions of the Haitian Revolution in the 1850s,” in Dawne Curry, Eric B. Duke, and Marshanda A. L. Smith, eds., Extending the Diaspora: New Scholarship on the History of Black Peoples (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009), 77–99.

Review of Laura E. Helton, Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024), The American Historical Review 131, no. 3 (September 2026): 1234–1235.

“An Introduction to Trump Syllabus 2.0,” Black Perspectives (AAIHS), June 2016. Contributor.

“Public Letter to the Chronicle: Response to Trump Syllabus 1.0,” Black Perspectives (AAIHS), June 2016. Contributor and signatory.

“Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History,” review of David Varel’s The Scholar and the Struggle: Lawrence Reddick’s Crusade for Black History and Black Power, Black Perspectives (AAIHS), October 7, 2021.

Organized Online Forum: Honoring the Life and Work of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, AAIHS: Black Perspectives, October 2019 — including Hall’s “A Giant in the Black Academy: The Individual and Collective Historical Vision of Rosalyn Terborg-Penn.”

“And the Women Shall Lead Us: Review of Keisha Blain’s Setting the World on Fire,” Public Books, December 3, 2018.

“Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun,” Black Perspectives, May 30, 2018.

“Man-Child Under the Moonlight: Black Masculinity in the Promised Land,” Black Perspectives, February 28, 2017.

“Humanistic Visions: The Long History of Black History Month,” Process: A Blog for American History, Organization of American Historians, February 23, 2017.

“History as a Communal Act: The History of Black History Month,” Black Perspectives, February 1, 2017.

“Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward,” Black Perspectives, November 14, 2016.

“Trump Syllabus 2.0: A Supplementary Reading List,” AAIHS, August 5, 2016 (over 200 primary and secondary sources).

“Remembering Cedric Robinson: Humanistic Imaginaries and the Black Radical Tradition,” AAIHS, June 12, 2016.

“On Black History Month and Historical Writing: An Interview with Stephen G. Hall,” interviewed by Brandon Byrd, AAIHS, February 23, 2016.

“The Age of Garvey and the Reconstruction of the Global Garveyist Frontier,” review of Adam Ewing’s The Age of Garvey, AAIHS Forum, November 23, 2015.

“Radical Transcripts Hidden in Plain View: Excavating and Recovering ‘Negro Toilers’ in the Communist Archive,” review of Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism, AAIHS Forum, July 27, 2015.

“Recovering a Lost Past: African American Historical Writing in the Nineteenth Century,” review of Laurie Maffly-Kipp’s Setting Down the Sacred Past, Left History 15.2 (Fall/Winter 2011): 90–96.

“Visions of Racial Destiny: Reexamining African American Life in the New South,” review of David Godshalk’s Veiled Visions and Michele Mitchell’s Righteous Propagation, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5 (October 2006): 403–410.

Review of Eric Burin, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution, and Allan Yarema, The American Colonization Society, in Itinerario 30 (2006): 200–202.

“Revisiting the Tragic Era and the Nadir,” review of Anne Alexander’s Race Man and Urban Emancipation, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4 (October 2005): 409–415.

“Revisioning African American Studies: Manning Marable’s Dispatches from the Ebony Tower,” Journal of African American Studies 8 (Summer–Fall 2004): 144–150.

“Rethinking the Public Intellectual: Michael Eric Dyson and the True Martin Luther King,” Western Journal of Black Studies 25.4 (Winter 2001): 240–244.

“Challenging Threadbare Masculinities: Hazel Carby’s Race Men,” Journal of International Women’s Studies 1 (May 2000).