Updates

April 17th is the 200th anniversary of the indemnity "agreement" with France that was a condition for French recognition of Haitian independence. Over the next 122 years, Haiti...

Recalling the life of Henry Christophe, Haiti’s first and last king

In a new book, Yale’s Marlene Daut follows the remarkable trajectory of Christophe’s life and Haiti’s...

Hosted on WTNH/ABC's Good Morning Connecticut, scholar Marlene L. Daut unravels the enigma that was Henry Christophe, the revolutionary, freedom-fighter, and only king of Haiti....

Twenty Six Letters: Some New Releases for April

By Jess Morency

March 28, 2025

Professor Daut is without a doubt one of the world's foremost academics on Haiti, and this monumental...

The revolutionary life of the king of Haiti: A slave's son beat the French empire and became 'the first monarch of the free world'.

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

8 March 2025

On June...

He was the first and only king of Haiti. What the life of Christophe says about its history

By Jacqueline Charles

Marlene Daut’s deep dive into Haiti’s first — and only — king...

The Book Awards at IPNE
Announces Its
2024 Award Winners

NONFICTION
Informational nonfiction

Gold
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Marlene L. Daut...

New York, NY – 10 December 2024 – The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its thirty-second annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French...

New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the winners of the twenty-sixth annual...

Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

2024 Shortlist

Awakening the Ashes was awarded Honorable Mention in the category of History for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year

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Boucher 2024 Honorable Mention

Marlene Daut’s Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) was awarded an...