H-Haiti Blog

All Together Now: Haitian Studies at the 2019 AHA and MLA Annual Conventions

Claire Antone Payton, University of Virginia

Mapping Early Haitian History

By Paul Clammer

In 2016 I was in Cap-Haïtien, working on an update for my guidebook to Haiti. Mapping is a key part of writing travel guides, and I spend a lot of time physically locating places and dropping pins on Google Maps. My first visit to Cap-Haïtien as a travel writer was in 2007, so it's a familiar city to navigate, a fact made even easier since its streets still retain the grid system laid down by French invaders in the late 17th century.

Haitian Politics and Culture in Translation 

Post by Brandon Byrd, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University

Your H-Haiti editors, Julia Gaffield and Marlene L. Daut, as well as the book review editor, Grégory Pierrot, would like to welcome you to the inaugural post of the H-Haiti Blog!

H-Haiti is designed to promote a community of scholars, artists, and activists dedicated to constructive discussions of Haitian history, religion, politics, art, and culture.