"Unlike his mentor and fellow revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, King Henry Christophe has not been kindly treated by historians. Much of what was written about him in the...
The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe: Jim Herlihy, host of The San Francisco Experience, talks with author Marlene Daut
On June 2, 1811, Henry Christophe and his wife Marie-Louise Coidavid were crowned the king and queen of Haiti. Little did they know, they would be Haiti's first and last....
The first work of theater devoted to the life of Henry Christophe was staged in 1821, only a year or so after Christophe took his own life. Since that...
The Haitian American scholar reveals her journey from a California upbringing deep into Haitian history, unearthing “Haitianists” along the way, meeting the complex “First and...
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...
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....
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...
