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23 Articles Tagged History

Disability Studies
May 9 2022

Teaching with There Plant Eyes

From Homer to Helen Keller, from Dune to Stevie Wonder, from the invention of braille to the science of echolocation, Dr. M. Leona Godin explores the fascinating history of blindness, interweaving it with her own story of gradually losing her sight, in her book There Plant Eyes. Educators are already finding that There Plant Eyes

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Teaching with There Plant Eyes

Disability Studies
May 9 2022
History
November 16 2021

Read Kyle T. Mays’ Author Note for An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian, Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled

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Read Kyle T. Mays’ Author Note for An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

History
November 16 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences History
October 11 2021

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Read an Exerpt from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s New Book Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

Whether in political debates or discussions about immigration around the kitchen table, many Americans, regardless of party affiliation, will say proudly that we are a nation of immigrants. In this bold new book, historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz asserts this ideology is harmful and dishonest because it serves to mask and diminish the US’s history of settler

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On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Read an Exerpt from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s New Book Not “A Nation of Immigrants”

Humanities & Social Sciences History
October 11 2021
General History
September 23 2021

Read an Excerpt from Andy Robinson’s Gold, Oil, and Avocados

The 21st century began optimistically in Latin America. Left-leaning leaders armed with programs to reduce poverty and reclaim national wealth were seeing results—but as the aughts gave way to the teens, they began to fall like dominos. Where did the dreams of this “pink tide” go? Look no further than the original culprits of Latin

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Read an Excerpt from Andy Robinson’s Gold, Oil, and Avocados

General History
September 23 2021
Environmental Science
July 21 2021

FROM THE PAGE: The Dreamt Land

As California swelters in unprecedented heat and lack of rain, it finds itself in the middle of yet another historic drought. Mark Arax’s assessments of the state’s perennial issues with water resources in his critically acclaimed The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California are more urgent and relevant than ever. The Dreamt Land is a

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FROM THE PAGE: The Dreamt Land

Environmental Science
July 21 2021
Humanities & Social Sciences
November 18 2020

Neal Gabler on Teaching the Next Generation About Their Political Heritage

Contributed by Neal Gabler, author of Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975 What happened to America?  What happened to bring us to this moment of deep and perhaps unbridgeable polarization, of disorder and chaos, of skepticism about science, institutions, even the very idea of fact itself, of rising white supremacy, of

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Neal Gabler on Teaching the Next Generation About Their Political Heritage

Humanities & Social Sciences
November 18 2020
Political Science History
October 28 2020

Martin J. Sherwin gives a reinterpretation of the Cuban Missile Crisis

By Martin J. Sherwin The Cuban Missile Crisis ended peacefully because neither President John Kennedy nor Premier Nikita Khrushchev wanted a war. It ended peacefully because Fidel Castro frightened Khrushchev into believing that the United States was about to start a war. It ended without a war because America’s ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai

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Martin J. Sherwin gives a reinterpretation of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Political Science History
October 28 2020
Humanities & Social Sciences
October 6 2020

Oxford Professor Margaret MacMillan Reveals How War Has Shaped Human History

Contributed by Margaret MacMillan, author of War: How Conflict Shaped Us Let me start with what my book is not about. It is not a history of war, although it contains many historical examples. Nor is it, unlike the many books that line the shelves of libraries or bookshops, devoted to a particular campaign or

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Oxford Professor Margaret MacMillan Reveals How War Has Shaped Human History

Humanities & Social Sciences
October 6 2020
Business & Economics Political Science Labor Studies
October 1 2020

BEATEN DOWN, WORKED UP is an essential examination of labor in America

Beaten Down, Worked Up is a stirring and essential look at labor in America, poised as it is between the tumultuous struggles of the past and the vital, hopeful struggles ahead.    Beaten Down, Worked Up Award-winning journalist and author Steven Greenhouse guides us through the key episodes and trends in history that are essential

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BEATEN DOWN, WORKED UP is an essential examination of labor in America

Business & Economics Political Science Labor Studies
October 1 2020
Humanities & Social Sciences
December 5 2019

Robert K. Massie: 1929 – 2019

Robert K. Massie, a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and biographer who is best known for chronicling the history of Russia through his insightful books on its most fascinating and consequential figures, passed away on Monday, December 2, 2019, at age 90. A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Massie studied American history at Yale and European history at

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Robert K. Massie: 1929 – 2019

Humanities & Social Sciences
December 5 2019
General Humanities & Social Sciences
October 28 2019

Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

UPDATE: Julia Lovell, author of Maoism: A Global History, has been declared the winner of the 2019 Cundill Prize. Alan Taylor, Chair of the Jury, praised Lovell: “Her book will dazzle readers with lucid and vivid insights into the power of a protean, and often deadly, ideology – and its enduring impact on our world

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Julia Lovell wins 2019 Cundill History Prize

General Humanities & Social Sciences
October 28 2019
Humanities & Social Sciences
April 18 2019

David Brion Davis: 1927-2019

David Brion Davis, distinguished author and historian, passed away on Sunday, April 14th 2019, at the age of 92. Davis was Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, and founder and Director Emeritus of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Throughout his career, he wrote and edited sixteen

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David Brion Davis: 1927-2019

Humanities & Social Sciences
April 18 2019
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