The legacy and impact of African kingdoms in the continent’s history from the 20th century to today. Edited by John Parker, this groundbreaking book takes us through nine key regions, including ancient …
By Nayan Shah, author of Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes In February 1989, I traveled to Durban, South Africa. I was twenty-two years old and had just graduated …
By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650 We’re excited to share our forthcoming medieval and early modern world textbook, The Sea in the Middle, and …
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 …
Marjolein Van Bavel’s “Morbo, lucha libre, and Television: The Ban of Women Wrestlers from Mexico City in the 1950s“—published in the current issue of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos and which we invite you to …
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This post is part of our #WHA2020 blog series. Learn more at our WHA virtual exhibit. We’re excited to announce that Genevieve Carpio has won the Western History Association’s 2020 Owens Book …
Rome in the time of the fourth century was one of dramatic political and religious change. After thousands of years of pagan tradition, Christianity was suddenly the new order. In 311, The …
By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing July 17, 2020 Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island …