Thinking about Shirley Chisholm during the Current Presidential Primaries
“I ran because someone had to do it first. In this country everybody is supposed…
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If Trump and Sanders Are Both Populists, What Does Populist Mean?
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online.] Charles Postel is an associate professor of history at San…
United Academics: A New Faculty Union at the University of Oregon
Michael Dreiling is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Oregon and is…
On the Canonization of Junípero Serra
Born and raised in California, Steven W. Hackel is a professor of history at the…
The Unrepentant Confederacy and Northern Complicity
Tera W. Hunter, Professor of History and African American Studies at Princeton, is the author…
How does it feel to have one’s work as a historian cited by the Supreme Court? Cool. Very cool. Thank you very much.
Hendrik Hartog is the Class of 1921 Bicentennial Professor in the History of American Law…
Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage
In a historic civil rights ruling issued today in Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court made marriage a…
Tourism, Terrorism, and the Memory of Slavery in Charleston, South Carolina
Blain Roberts, the author of the book Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty…
Ferguson, USA: A Historian’s Collision with History, Part Two
Note: this is the second post in a two-part series by Professor Stefan M. Bradley…
Ferguson, USA: A Historian’s Collision with History, Part One
Stefan M. Bradley is the director of African American Studies Program and an associate professor…