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"The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise of Henry Christophe'" featured

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....

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Dorset Magazine reviews "The First and Last King of Haiti" Twenty Six

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...

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"The First and Last King of Haiti" reviewed in The Times of London The

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...

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"The First and Last King of Haiti" reviewed on the Front page of the Miami

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...

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"Awakening the Ashes" received an Honorable Mention for the MLA Scaglione

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...

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YALE ANNOUNCES 2024 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOOK PRIZE WINNERS New Haven, Conn.—

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...

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Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution

2024 Shortlist

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Marlene L. Daut
University of North Carolina Press
In Awakening the...

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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...

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