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Nesrine Mbarek graduated from Stanford in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in history. She is interested in a career transforming education by reforming curricula, pedagogy, finance, and assessment, while empowering teachers and building…
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The Trump campaign slogan “Make America Great Again” seems to promise a return to an imagined past, when the nation was better and more authentically “American.” Even if the vision espoused by some MAGA followers never represented the reality of…
Professor Hecht's book, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, received the 2024 Best Book Award from the African Studies Association.
The African Studies Association (ASA) invites publishers to nominate…
Denmark wanted to sell it a century ago. The U.S. didn’t bite but did acquire the Virgin Islands.
Critics are sharpening their pens to excoriate President Trump for again proposing to purchase Greenland. The real-estate baron wants to buy…
Professor Sommer's book, The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China, received the 2025 John Boswell Prize from the LGBTQ+ History Association.
The John Boswell Prize recognizes an…
Professor Jonathan Gienapp discusses his new book, Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique.
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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…
