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In the decades following the Declaration of Independence, Americans began reading the affirmation that “all men are created equal” in different ways than the framers intended, says Stanford historian Jack Rakove.
On July 4, 1776,…
Black Lives Matter is reverberating around the world, triggering a fresh reckoning with the racist global history of colonialism and slavery. While Confederate statues began to tumble across the American South, in Bristol, England, a diverse…
By Time Staff
21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments
As many Americans prepare to toast their country’s past on the Fourth of July, there’s no escaping that not every facet of that history has been worth…
By Time Staff
21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments
As many Americans prepare to toast their country’s past on the Fourth of July, there’s no escaping that not every facet of that history has been…
Lily Foulkes, Queer Deviancy, Undesirable Caribbean Refugees, and the Rise of Carceral Immigration Detention. (Advisors: Ana Minian and Estelle Freedman)
James Birdsall…
What will we remember of this year of COVID-19 and how will we recall it? In 1374, during the final year of a long and interesting life, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarch observed that his society had lived with “this plague,…
This past week, protests took place in every U.S. state and in many foreign cities, an uprising ignited by the killing of George Floyd. The demonstrations speak to the larger malignancy of racism and police abuse over the decades. This week, we’…
The killing of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers continues to incite mass demonstrations around the nation. As these turbulent protests surface in a multitude of cities throughout the U.S., our national political…
As spontaneous and loosely organized demonstrations against the death of George Floyd continue to erupt across the world, Stanford historian and civil rights scholar Clayborne Carson has a message to activists: There needs to be…
Q&A Ravi Veriah Jacques (Class of 2020) Separate Interview through the Department of History
Recipient of the 2020 Schwarzman Scholarship
Recipient of Stanford Deans’ Award for Academic Achievement
Recipient of…
