Stephen G. Hall is a historian specializing in 19th- and 20th-century African American and American intellectual, social, and cultural history and the African Diaspora. As a 2017–18 fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle, North Carolina, he worked on his second book manuscript, titled “Global Visions: African American Historians Engage the World, 1885–1960,” which explores the scholarly production of black historians on the African Diaspora. He is the author of A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).