This guest post is published as part of our blog series in conjunction with the Organization of American Historians conference in Philadelphia from April 4-7, 2019. Share using #OAH19. By Sylvie Laurent, …
Read More >To commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy, we share an adapted excerpt from the new book King and the Other America: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Quest for Economic …
Read More >By Sylvie Laurent, author of King and the Other America: The Poor People’s Campaign and the Quest for Economic Equality,(coming January 2019) As America celebrates the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s …
Read More >Excerpt from Race and America’s Long War by Nikhil Pal Singh In his excellent introduction to Race and America’s Long War, Nikhil Pal Singh asks: who is an object of dread and elimination, …
Read More >by Steven Weitzman and Sylvester Johnson, editors of The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11 James B. Comey wants you to know that the FBI he directs …
Read More >Marching on Washington has returned to the center stage of national politics with The Women’s March on Washington in protest of the inauguration of Donald Trump and his administration’s policies. In their official policy platform, the march …
Read More >“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed – we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men …
Read More >Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-author of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice, recently appeared on Democracy Now! with Michael Eric Dyson to talk about the …
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