by Lyra D. Monteiro This post is excerpted from Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, found in the UC Press journal The Public Historian, Vol. …
Read More >by Bruce David Forbes and Jeffrey H. Mahan, editors of Religion and Popular Culture in America, Third Edition The campaign, election, and presidency of Donald Trump have received extensive analysis, especially political …
Read More >Rooting poetry beyond location and historical time, Jerome Rothenberg’s seminal compilation Technicians of the Sacred has educated and inspired poets, artists, musicians, and other readers—from Allen Ginsberg to Nick Cave—for generations, exposing them to the …
Read More >by Laura Briggs, author of the forthcoming book How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump The Republicans seem determined to end the availability of basic sexual …
Read More >This guest blog post is written in recognition of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, sponsored by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. #SAAM By Ken Kolb, author of Moral Wages: The Emotional Dilemmas of Victim …
Read More >While slow movements have garnered attention and interest over the years, Slow Art Day is an annual event that may not be on every one’s radars, but is in fact very easy to …
Read More >As the Medieval Academy of America conference begins this week in Toronto, we’re featuring hits from our backlist of Ancient World titles, turning our focus to the Global Middle Ages and Late …
Read More >Depending on your intake of current event news, the wall—existing and potential—between the United States and Mexico has been a staple feature of this administration’s diet. Among other things it’s divisive, unrealistic, and …
Read More >by Fred B. Glass, author of From Mission to Microchip: A History of the California Labor Movement This guest post is part of a series published in conjunction with the meeting of …
Read More >One of the themes in this year’s American Association of Geographers conference (occurring in Boston from April 5 – 9) is Mainstreaming Human Rights and Geography. Many geographers and scholars from all disciplines are concerned …
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