Making Black History accessible to the public

Stephen G. Hall, Ph.D., is an editor and trained historian, and the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Historianspeaks, where he has written and overseen nearly 2,000 blogs, podcasts and features on the Black experience. His academic training covers African American History and Studies, American History, Mexico, Central America, Brazil and the Caribbean, and African History. He earned a B.A. in History from Morgan State University (HBCU), an M.A. in African American Studies with a concentration in History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University.

A nationally recognized historical expert, National Humanities Center Fellow (2017–2018), and 2024 finalist for the ACLS HBCU Faculty Fellowship, Hall is the author of A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2009, John Hope Franklin Series). He has taught history for twenty-six years, served as History Program Coordinator at Alcorn State University, and worked at The North Star. He has also served as a historical consultant for the Crash Course Black American History YouTube series and the AP African American Studies course, and serves as special editor and staff writer for Bauval, The African Heritage Magazine.