As Black Lives Matter brings millions together in the mission to end state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism, we want to highlight some of the work we’ve published – or will publish – that supports this movement. This piece is the first in what will be an ongoing series, each one dedicated to a separate issue […]
Read MoreMonuments have been coming down all over the world, from Louisville, Kentucky to Bristol, England. Protestors tore President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis from his pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, while Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader, lies at the bottom of Bristol Harbor. A Virginia court just blocked the removal of Confederate General Robert E. […]
Read MoreHonolulu’s Honuakaha smallpox cemetery, photographed in 2013. The first outbreak of smallpox in 1853 took as many as 6,000 lives, eight percent of the Islands’ roughly 75,000 people. Hundreds are believed to be buried under the Kaka‘ako Fire Station parking lot, at the rear of photograph.
Read MoreJune 5th is World Environment Day, an annual event of the United Nations Environment Programme since 1974. This year the theme is Time for Nature. June 5 falls at a hectic time in 2020, with one crisis nested inside another like Russian matryoshka dolls. The United States is roiling in civil unrest more serious than […]
Read MoreThis year, Mexico will determine how many of its citizens identify as Afro-Mexican in its 2020 census. Previously, the federal government had only asked about the nation’s African heritage with an intercensal survey conducted in 2015, when 1.4 million people claimed cultural or ancestral roots in Africa. The last five years sit in stark contrast […]
Read MoreIn April 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump began to lash out at the World Health Organization, blaming it for what he claimed were missteps, failures, and prevarications in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. On April 14 he announced that U.S. funding for WHO would be frozen for 60-90 days while his administration conducted a […]
Read MoreIn January 1983, two junior members of Congress, John E. Porter – a moderate Republican from Illinois – and Tom Lantos – a liberal Democrat from California – launched a new forum dedicated to “encourage broad bipartisan attention to human rights abuses” across the world. By the end of the decade, their Congressional Human Rights […]
Read MoreHow we understand and respond to failure is one of the most defining features of how our lives pan out. Some people refuse to fail. Some people expect to fail. Some people always hide from their own failings (most of these currently seem to be in politics). Others always look for failings in themselves, or […]
Read MoreAs Black Lives Matter brings millions together in the mission to end state-sanctioned violence and anti-Black racism, we want to highlight some of the work we’ve published – or will publish – that supports this movement. This piece is the first in what will be an ongoing series, each one dedicated to a separate issue […]
Read MoreMonuments have been coming down all over the world, from Louisville, Kentucky to Bristol, England. Protestors tore President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis from his pedestal in Richmond, Virginia, while Edward Colston, a seventeenth-century slave trader, lies at the bottom of Bristol Harbor. A Virginia court just blocked the removal of Confederate General Robert E. […]
Read MoreHonolulu’s Honuakaha smallpox cemetery, photographed in 2013. The first outbreak of smallpox in 18...
Read MoreJune 5th is World Environment Day, an annual event of the United Nations Environment Programme since 1974. This year the theme is Time for Nature. June 5 falls at a hectic time in 2020, with one crisis nested inside another like Russian matryoshka dolls. The United States is roiling in civil unrest more serious than […]
Read MoreThis year, Mexico will determine how many of its citizens identify as Afro-Mexican in its 2020 census. Previously, the federal government had only asked about the nation’s African heritage with an intercensal survey conducted in 2015, when 1.4 million people claimed cultural or ancestral roots in Africa. The last five years sit in stark contrast […]
Read MoreIn April 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump began to lash out at the World Health Organization, blaming it for what he claimed were missteps, failures, and prevarications in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. On April 14 he announced that U.S. funding for WHO would be frozen for 60-90 days while his administration conducted a […]
Read MoreIn January 1983, two junior members of Congress, John E. Porter – a moderate Republican from Illinois – and Tom Lantos – a liberal Democrat from California – launched a new forum dedicated to “encourage broad bipartisan attention to human rights abuses” across the world. By the end of the decade, their Congressional Human Rights […]
Read MoreHow we understand and respond to failure is one of the most defining features of how our lives pan out. Some people refuse to fail. Some people expect to fail. Some people always hide from their own failings (most of these currently seem to be in politics). Others always look for failings in themselves, or […]
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Salim Yaqub is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord (2022).
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Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South
\\\'The Colored Hero\\\' of Harper\\\'s Ferry
African American Religions, 1500–2000
Independent Politics
Independent Politics
The Cambridge Companion to American Civil Rights Literature
American Hippies
The Most Controversial Decision
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War
National Security and Core Values in American History
Radicals in Their Own Time
Abortion Politics in Congress
Abortion Politics in Congress
Antisemitism and the American Far Left
I Do Solemnly Swear
After Bush
After Bush
Marketing associate
A Government Out of Sight
Making a New Deal
Political Moderation in America\\\'s First Two Centuries
Japan Rising
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The American 1930s
Seduced by Secrets
The End of Straight Supremacy
The American Mission and the \\\\\\\'Evil Empire\\\\\\\'
Creating the Nazi Marketplace
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr
Tested by Zion
Stephen A. Douglas and Antebellum Democracy
The American Army and the First World War
Gender and Race in Antebellum Popular Culture
The Founders and the Idea of a National University
Romantic Reformers and the Antislavery Struggle in the Civil War Era
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
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1919, The Year of Racial Violence
Chiefdoms, Collapse and Coalescence in the Early American South
Declaring War
A Concise History of the United States of America
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German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era
On Dissent
On Dissent
The Many Panics of 1837
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