Gerald Horne, Ph.D.
Moores Professor of History

Phone: (713) 743-3114
Email: ghorne@uh.edu
Office: 546 Agnes Arnold Hall
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Biographical Summary

Dr. Gerlad Horne—B.A. Princeton University; J.D. University of California-Berkeley; Ph.D. Columbia University—has published dozens of books, including most recently, The Capital of Slavery:  Washington, D.C., 1800-1865.  His past books have included works on, inter alia, Hollywood; Jazz; Boxing; African liberation movements; the Haitian Revolution (translated into French); the Cuban Revolution (translated into Spanish);  the Mexican Revolution; Caribbean independence struggles; Brazilian slavery (translated into Portuguese); the Pacific War (translated into Japanese); biographies of Paul Robeson and W.E.B. Du Bois and Shirley Graham Du Bois.  His first book of 2026 will be The Counter-Revolution of 1893:  The Hawaii Coup and the Roots of U.S. Imperialism in the Asia-Pacific Basin which is part of a trilogy that includes The Counter-Revolution of 1776:  Slave Resistance and the Origins of the U.S.A. and The Counter-Revolution of 1836:  Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of U.S. Fascism.  In 2024 he was selected for membership in the Texas Institute of Letters. In 2023 he won the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association.  Winner of the American Book Award in 2021 was ‘The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism & Capitalism in the Long 16th Century’.  In 2017 he received the Ida B. Wells and Cheik Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Leadership from the National Council of Black Studies.  In 2014 he received the Carter G. Woodson Scholar’s Medallion for Lifetime Achievement from the Association for the Study of African American Life & History. As an attorney, he won the Hope Stevens Award from the National Conference of Black Lawyers.