By Jim Walvin, author of A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power Like most apprentice historians, I learned my trade on a specific, narrow area of …
Read More >The fundamental purpose for redressing atrocities is to accentuate a common humanity between perpetrator and victims. Roy L. Brooks, author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations An issue …
Read More >Welcome to the third post in our #7CheapThings blog series! Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore’s A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things focuses on seven areas that are the foundation of modern commerce: …
Read More >In recognition of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, we observe his greatest, most lasting accomplishment: the abolition of slavery. Through this lens, we look at the historic and modern day slave trade to ask …
Read More >Today marks the 40th anniversary of Roots: The Saga of an American Family. To celebrate, we’re highlighting Matthew F. Delmont’s Making Roots: A Nation Captivated, which looks at the importance of the book and …
Read More >This is the last daily recap by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If you have …
Read More >This is the third of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If you …
Read More >This is the second of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If …
Read More >This is the first of four daily recaps by Matthew Delmont, author of Making Roots: A Nation Captivated (coming August 2016) about the remake of Alex Haley’s Roots television miniseries airing on HISTORY Channel. If …
Read More >By Matthew F. Delmont, author of The Nicest Kids in Town, Why Busing Failed, and Making Roots When Alex Haley’s book Roots was published by Doubleday in 1976 it became an immediate bestseller. …
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