March 8, 1950—International Women’s Day—Marked the Embrace of a Feminist Battle Against Imperialism This post was originally published on Zócalo Public Square and is reposted here with permission. By Elisabeth B. Armstrong, author …
Read More >By Eric Porter, author of A People’s History of SFO: The Making of the Bay Area and an Airport For many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put …
Read More >For the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, we reached out to scholar Adria Imada to discuss her new book, An Archive of Skin, An Archive of Kin: Disability and Life-Making …
Read More >By Moon-Ho Jung, author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State In the wake of very visible hate crimes against Asian Americans this past …
Read More >by María Elena García, author of Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race: Stories of Capital, Culture, and Coloniality in Peru I never intended to write a book about food. And certainly, I …
Read More >By William B. Taylor, author of Fugitive Freedom: The Improbable Lives of Two Impostors in Late Colonial Mexico I didn’t plan to write Fugitive Freedom. This was partly because the project that …
Read More >The story of Potosí, a virtual mountain of silver whose revelation made world news and became a secular icon after an Andean prospector named Diego Gualpa struck pay dirt high on its flanks in 1545.
Read More >This guest post is published as part of our blog series related to the American Studies Association conference in Atlanta, from Nov. 8-11. #2018ASA By Eli Jelly-Schapiro, author of Security and Terror: American Culture and the Long …
Read More >adapted from Home Bound: Filipino American Lives across Cultures, Communities, and Countries by Yen Le Espiritu October is Filipino-American History Month, commemorating the landing of “Luzones Indios” at what is now Morro Bay, California …
Read More >Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. These seven things, according to Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore, have made our world and will have an unmistakable impact on its future. Bringing …
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