When an earthquake shook Haiti late on Tuesday, the world immediately sprang to action. Early estimates are little more than guesses, but officials say the deaths could number 100,000, with 3 million ...

Newswise — Lyns-Virginie Belony has been teaching an introductory course on Caribbean history at Université de Montréal since January and will begin teaching another on the history of Haiti in the ...

Exploring Haiti’s colonial past, its revolution and independence and its contemporary challenges, the symposium “Haiti and the World: Global Encounters of the Past, Present and Future” addressed ...

Many things account for Haiti's modern troubles. A good perspective on them comes from going back in time to 1715 or so—and grappling with a far-flung narrative involving the French monarchy, a ...

A French and African diaspora studies expert argued the crucial significance of the Haitian Revolution in broader anti-colonial history at a Georgetown University event Feb. 18. A Yale University ...

In 2002, Haiti’s former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide argued that France should pay his country US$21 billion. The reason? In 1825, France extracted a huge indemnity from the young nation, in ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Marlene L. Daut is a Professor of French and African ...