Publications
BOOKS
“ 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 (UNC Press, 2009)
EDITED BOOKS
“History as A Communal Act: African American History and Engaged Publics” (under contract with Routledge Press, 2014) scheduled to appear in 2018
“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. DuBois and Intellectual Explorations in Black History,” co-edited with Philip Sinitiere (in process)
ARTICLES
“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.
Book Introductions
Jacqueline Francis and Stephen G. Hall (intro) in Julian Rothenstein, ed., Black Lives: W.E.B. DuBois at the Paris Exposition 1900 (London, Redstone Press, 2019): http://info.theredstoneshop.com/DUBOISpressrelease.pdf
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“The Haitian and American Revolutions and Black Historical Writing at Mid-Century” in Teresa Zackodnik, ed., African American Literatures in Transition, volume 4, 1850-1865. New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“Envisioning an Antislavery War: African American Historical Constructions of the Haitian Revolution in the 1850’s” 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 ESSAYS
Organized Online Forum: Honoring the Life and Work of Rosalyn Terborg Penn https://www.aaihs.org/online-forum-honoring-the-life-and-work-of-dr-rosalyn-terborg-penn/The forum included the following articles: Sasha Turner, “Rosalyn Terborg’s Penn’s African Feminist Theory and Praxis,” https://www.aaihs.org/rosalyn-terborg-penns-african-feminist-theory-and-praxis/October 21, 20019; Jewell Debnam, “Trailblazing the Field: On Rosalyn Terborg-Penn’s Work in Black Women’s History, “https://www.aaihs.org/trailblazing-the-field-on-rosalyn-terborg-penns-work-in-black-womens-history/October 22, 2019; Ida Jones, “No Longer Invisible, An African American Woman’s Journey,” https://www.aaihs.org/no-longer-invisible-an-african-american-womans-journey/, October 23, 2019; Stephen G. Hall, “A Giant in the Black Academy: The Individual and Collective Historical Vision of Rosalyn Terborg Penn,” https://www.aaihs.org/a-giant-in-the-black-academy/, October 24, 2019.
“And the Women Shall Lead Us: Review of Keisha Blain’s Setting the World on Fire:
https://www.publicbooks.org/and-the-women-shall-lead-us/, Public Books, December 3, 2018.
Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun:
https://www.aaihs.org/crispus-attucks-american-revolutionary-hero-an-interview-with-mitch-kachun/, African American Intellectual History, On-Line Blog, May 30, 2018
Man-Child Under the Moonlight: Black Masculinity in the Promised Land:
https://www.aaihs.org/man-child-under-the-moonlight-black-masculinity-in-the-promised-land/, African American Intellectual History, Black Perspectives On-Line Blog, February 28, 2017.
Humanistic Visions: The Long History of Black History Month: http://www.processhistory.org/hall-humanistic-visions/, Process Magazine, Organization of American Historians, On-Line Blog, February 23, 2017
History as A Communal Act, http://www.aaihs.org/history-as-a-communal-act-the-history-of-black-history-month/African American Intellectual History, Black Perspectives Online Blog, February 1, 2017.
Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward:https://www.aaihs.org/man-child-under-the-moonlight-black-masculinity-in-the-promised-land/, African American Intellectual History, Black Perspectives On-Line Blog, November 14, 2016
Trump Syllabus 2.0: A Supplementary Reading List , http://www.aaihs.org/trump-syllabus-2-0-a-supplementary-reading-list/African American Intellectual History Society, August 5, 2016 (Over 200 sources—primary and secondary)
“Remembering Cedric Robinson: Humanistic Imaginaries and the Black Radical Tradition” (Blog Post), http://www.aaihs.org/remembering-cedric-robinson-humanistic-imaginaries-and-the-black-radical-tradition/African American Intellectual History Society, June 12, 2016
“On Black History Month and Historical Writing:” An Interview with Stephen G. Hall
http://www.aaihs.org/on-black-history-month/Interviewed by Brandon Byrd. African American Intellectual Society, February 23, 2016.
“The Age of Garvey and the Reconstruction of the Global Garveyist Frontier. Overview of Adam Ewing’s The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaician Activist Created a Mass
Movement and Changed Global Politics (aaihs.org/the-age-of-garvey/), African
American Intellectual History Society 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: The Communist International and the Diaspora ( http://aaihs.org/radical-transcripts/), African American Intellectual Society Forum, July 27, 2015.
Book Review Essay: “Recovering A Lost Past: African American Historical Writing in the Nineteenth Century, Review of Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories” (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010) in Left History 15.2(Fall/Winter, 2011): 90-96.
Book Review Essay: “Visions of Racial Destiny: Reexamining African American Life in the New South: Review of David Goldshalk’s Veiled Visions and Michele Mitchell’s Righteous Propagation, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5 (October 2006): 403-410.
Book Review Essay of Eric Burin, Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society and Allan Yarema, The American Colonization Society: An Avenue to Freedom in Itinerario 2: International Journal of the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction 30 (2006): 200-202.
“Revisiting the Tragic Era and the Nadir: Interrogating Individual and Collective African American Lives in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era: Review of Anne Alexander’s
Race Man: The Rise and Fall of the, “The Fighting Editor” and Urban Emancipation: Popular Politics in Reconstruction Mobile, 1860-1890.” 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). URL Address:
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