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A group of people pose for a photo on white marble steps

Awards+Honors

'Indispensable Role of Blacks' inducts five new members

Published June 23, 2025

Inductees honored at university's Juneteenth celebration on June 20

Nathan D. Connolly, Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History, teaches about the history and impact of racist practices in the U.S. housing arena.

A world more complete

Published Aug 3, 2021

Historian Nathan D. Connolly investigates the brick wall of race, class, and real estate

History and humanities

Mellon Foundation awards $4 million to Inheritance Baltimore project

Published Jan 14, 2021

The project will pioneer new methods of instruction, research, and archival preservation that bring the history of the Black Baltimoreans to the fore

Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott create the children's reading YouTube series Storytime with Dr. Connolly

Faculty

The family that reads together

Published July 24, 2020

Through their new YouTube series 'Storytime with Dr. Connolly,' instructors Nathan Connolly and Shani Mott hope to bring a celebration of Africana history to the next generation of readers

Podcast

Stories in past tense

Published Summer 2018

Narrative is a powerful way to present historical information. Historian Nathan Connolly discusses why it works, and when it doesn't. / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Women's history month

Harriet Tubman, real-life action hero

Published March 8, 2018

Maryland-born abolitionist and humanitarian is 'as heroic as it gets,' says historian N. D. B. Connolly

Commentary

'Black Panther' taps centuries of dreams

Published Feb 16, 2018

Historian N.D.B. Connolly explores the historical inspirations, both real and imagined, for the film's fictional world of Wakanda / The Hollywood Reporter