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Using data from the National Hurricane Center’s (NHC’s) Best Track archive, it is found that there are local minima and maxima of occurrence of tropical cyclone (TC) activity in the southwest North Atlantic basin where sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) are rarely an inhibiting fac…

Nineteenth-century slaveholders of the Atlantic master class had many reasons to be concerned with the future. In a world ushered in with the aid of the Haitian Revolution, slave revolts in these sensitive times seemed to erupt with increased frequency, leaving greater destructi…

Using newly discovered sources from Spanish and French archives, “Subjects of the King: Royalism and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution, 1763-1806,” re-examines the social, political, and cultural history of the Haitian Revolution. Specifically, I explore the royalist origins…

Two countries inhabit the island of Hispaniola, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Their history has been reported locally and internationally as tumultuous, violent, and irreconcilable, especially on the border. African ancestry is prominent in the bloodlines of both countries. …