Book Events & News


January 17 Book Launch at Source Booksellers in Detroit

Writers Live! at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Central Library.


Politics and Prose Bookstore


Ann Arbor


Zinn Ed Project’s outstanding and inspiring Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Series


Zora Neale Hurston Lecture at the University of Michigan


Milton Klein Lecture in History at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville


LA Times Festival of Books–Los Angeles

Posing at the book signing area with my stash of books

CSPAN Book TV Coverage of The Legacy of Slavery Through the Generations

LA Times Festival of Books CSPAN Book TV

Sterling Stuckey Lecture at the University of California–Riverside


CSPAN’S American History TV

https://www.c-span.org/video/?525877-1/i-death-coming


Detroit Public Library, Main Branch, Book Talk, May 21, 2023


Library Journal’s Shining Stars | The Best History Books of 2023 So Far

I’m in great company on both lists! 🙏🏾🤞🏾crossed I remain there.


Library of Virginia | Carole Weinstein Author Series | Richmond


Short List for 2023 MAAH Stone Book Award


Ole Miss | Gilder Jordan Lecture



2023 National Book Award Longlist for Nonfiction

The announcement in The New Yorker. Take a look all the longlisted books here.


To learn more about the lecturers and to request historians to speak at events, click here.


Oakland University


History Book Festival


Brooklyn Book Festival | CSPAN Author Discussion on American Slavery Today

Authors Rachel SwarnsNick Tabor and Kidada Williams looked at America’s history of slavery and how it continues to affect society today. The amazing Stephanie McCurry facilitated our discussion.


East Lansing Public Library


BookPage’s List of The Best Nonfiction of 2023


Amazon’s Top 20 History Books of 2023


National Book Foundation at the 2023 Miami Book Festival


Smithsonian’s 2023 Ten Best History Books


Washington Independent Review of Books’ Favorite 21 Books of 2023


AAIHS’s Best Black History Books 2023



Ms Magazine’s 2023 ‘Best of the Rest’: Our Favorite Books of the Year!


2024 Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration


Cammett Lecture for Economic Justice and Social Change


Mississippi Department of Archives and History: 2024 History is Lunch Series

Mississippi Book Festival

Rebecca Turri, Tracie McMillan, me, Grace Hale, and Dionne Ford Photo Credit: the wonderful DeeDee Baldwin

The Dark Side of the American Story

The one and only Annette Gordon-Reed listed ISDC among the books she recommended “that place America’s current political moment—as much defined by racial hatred and opposition to progress as anything else—in its historical context.”🙏🏾💪🏾

We Made it to the National Museum of African American History Culture!

Thanks to Lily Chen, one of my amazing students, I know my girl made it to the Blacksonian. Look at the company she’s keeping. 🙌🏾 ❤️‍🔥 🎉