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Professor Caroline Winterer's most recent book, How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America, was featured on the New Yorker's 2024 "Best Book We've Read This Year" list.
Donald Trump’s success with men—especially Latino men and young white men—has caused handwringing among Democrats. Some have charged that the party has abandoned male interests, or even taken to treating men derisively, with disastrous…
Brazil’s federal police are investigating a plot by far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro and his allies to prevent Lula from taking office in 2023. They’ve now charged the conspirators with scheming to murder Lula, his vice president, and a senior…
Junko Takeda is Professor of History and Chair of the Citizenship and Civic Engagement Program in the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University. A historian of France and its engagement with Asian empires and…
Estelle Freedman received the 2024 Oral History Association Article Award for “‘Not a Word Was Said Ever Again’: Silence and Speech in Women’s Oral History Accounts of Sexual Harassment,” which was published in The Oral History Review in 2023.
Professor Estelle Freedman received the 2024 Oral History Association Article Award for “‘Not a Word Was Said Ever Again’: Silence and Speech in Women’s Oral History Accounts of Sexual Harassment,” which was published in The Oral History Review…
Book bans are skyrocketing in America, finds a new report from PEN America, a non-profit organization that champions free expression in writing. During the 2023-24 school year, over 10,000 books were banned across the country, more than…
Professor Al Camarillo's book, Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality, was featured on AirTalk Host Larry Mantle's list of favorite LA books of 2024.
Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of immigrants a centerpiece of his plans for a second term, vowing to forcibly remove as many as 20 million people from the country. Historian Ana Raquel Minian, who studies the history of immigration,…
To understand the historical document, we need to understand its deeper historical context, Gienapp argues in a new book.
Constitutional originalism, a prominent legal theory espoused by many conservative judges and legal thinkers,…
