Attend the Annual Film Festival in Indy. Open to the Public

The film festival is one of many aspects of the 103rd Annual Conference that is free and open to the public. It begins on Thursday and ends on Saturday evening. Plan dinner and...

National Park Service Chief Historian Turkiya Lowe to air on C-SPAN

7 pm ET & 11 pm ET Sunday American History TV sat down with National Park Service Chief Historian Turkiya Lowe to talk about her career, job and priorities for telling the nation’s stories....

ASALH Mourns the Loss of Historian Sterling Stuckey

Notice from ASALH’s President In Memoriam: Sterling Stuckey The Association for the Study of African American Life and History mourns the recent passing of Sterling Stuckey, the groundbreaking historian whose interdisciplinary focus launched the serious...

Register for the Conference Today!

103rd Annual Conference in Indianapolis, Oct.3-7,2018. Register online, by mail or by phone today. We look forward to seeing you there.

View the Entire Conference Program Here

The conference program is available online. You can search the program by day, by session type, and by a person who is presenting on the program. View the entire program as a guest...

Plenary Sessions

Thursday, October 4, 2018, Against US Imperialism: Pan-Africanism and Black Internationalism, 1900-2016

Sens. Coons, Murkowski, Harris introduce bill to recognize ‘Hidden Figures’ for contributions to U.S. leadership during the Space Race

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chris Coons (D-Del.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), along with 44 of their...

Tampa Bay School Named for Dr. Woodson

Hillsborough County School Board Members voted unanimously at Tuesday’s School Board meeting to name a new PreK-8 school, opening...

Dallas-Fort Worth branch of one of the nation’s top black history study groups is up and running

Some local black history pundits were approved this month to form a Dallas-Fort Worth branch of one of the...

ASALH Announces 2018 Black History Theme, African Americans in Times of War

The 2018 theme, “African Americans in Times of War,” commemorates the centennial of the end of the First World...