In the decades between the Berlin Conference that partitioned Africa and the opening of the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, Americans in

In Brightest Africa is an excellent travelog with details of Carl Ethan Akeley's ventures in East Africa. Akeley worked with President Theodore Roosevelt and wa

Carl Ethan Akeley was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to

In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger

An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an "African American" and how does this identity relate