The revelation that James Comey has a secret Twitter account led to further examination this week of the name associated with the purported account: Reinhold Niebuhr. Theories abound about why the Director of the …
Read More >by Tom Adam Davies, author of Mainstreaming Black Power This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of the Organization of American Historians in New Orleans. The theme …
Read More >We are excited to announce that the Municipal Art Society of New York has awarded this year’s Brendan Gill Prize to Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. CONGRATULATIONS to editors Rebecca Solnit …
Read More >by Clif Stratton, author of Education for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good Citizenship This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of …
Read More >Today we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Cesar Chavez on what would have been his 90th birthday. He is remembered not just as a champion for labor rights …
Read More >By John J. Collins, author of The Invention of Judaism: Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul Jewish identity is a controversial issue. Traditionally, anyone born of a Jewish mother is …
Read More >With the annual meeting of the Society for Cinema & Media Studies beginning this week in Chicago, UC Press journals Feminist Media Histories and Film Quarterly are pleased to offer a collection of limited-time free …
Read More >Grace Lee Boggs was a tireless activist for feminism, Black Power, civil rights, environmental justice, and workers’ rights. A recipient of many human rights and lifetime achievement awards, including a place in …
Read More >by Wang Zheng, author of Finding Women in the State: A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1964 This is our final guest post published in conjunction with the …
Read More >By Valerie Stoker, author of Polemics and Patronage in the City of Victory: Vyasatirtha, Hindu Sectarianism, and the Sixteenth-Century Vijayanagara Court This guest post is published in conjunction with the Association for …
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