In Seeding Empire, Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today’s efforts to cultivate a “Green Revolution in Africa” to a history of American projects …
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Read More >This year’s annual conference of the National Council on Public History (NCPH) is being hosted jointly with the Utah Historical Society from April 10-14, 2024, in Salt Lake City, UT. We are …
Read More >Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural …
Read More >By Jeffrey S. Adler, author of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality The horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, …
Read More >American households have a debt problem. The problem is not, as often claimed, that Americans recklessly take on too much debt. The problem is that US debt policies have no basis in …
Read More >By Bayley Marquez, author of Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous Space In the summer of 2023, as I was finishing reviewing the copy edits of my manuscript …
Read More >By Michael Mascarenhas, author of Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan’s Water War My new book, Toxic Water, Toxic System is not just the story of how the state failed …
Read More >By Ned Randolph, author of Muddy Thinking in the Mississippi River Delta: A Call for Reclamation This post was originally published on The Conversation, and is reposted here with permission. Billions of …
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