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The Making of the Springfield Working Class
Each generation of this country’s workforce has always been urged to detest the next—to come up with its own fantasies of cat-eating immigrants.
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Gabriel Winant
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New York Review of Books
on
September 30, 2024
Trump’s Anti-Haitian Hate Has Deep American Roots
The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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The New Republic
on
September 16, 2024
The Right Side of Now
Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about the present tense?
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Lauren Michele Jackson
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The New Yorker
on
June 24, 2024
Harriet Tubman and the Second South Carolina Volunteers Bring Freedom to the Combahee River
The story of how Harriet Tubman led 150 African American soldiers to rescue over 700 former slaves freed five months earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Edda Fields-Black
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History Uncut
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June 19, 2024
Slavery, Capitalism, and the Politics of Abolition
"The Reckoning," Robin Blackburn’s monumental history, offers a dizzying account of the politics behind slavery's rise and fall.
by
Alec Israeli
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Jacobin
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May 19, 2024
Slavery Was Crucial for the Development of Capitalism
Historian Robin Blackburn has completed a trilogy of books that provide a comprehensive Marxist account of slavery in the New World.
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Robin Blackburn
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Owen Dowling
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Jacobin
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April 10, 2024
The ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ Once More
In sending military aid to Ukraine, America’s values and security interests are aligned.
by
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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Bulwark+
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February 20, 2024
The U.S. Has Never Forgiven Haiti
What 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we tell the story of abolition and the development of human rights around the world.
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Leslie M. Alexander
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Public Books
on
January 11, 2024
A Plea for Genuine Peace in Liberation
To address these atrocities and treat Jewish victims, survivors, and families with dignity, we must confront Israel’s subjugation of Palestine.
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William Horne
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In Case Of Emergency
on
October 12, 2023
Why the Age of Revolution Loved the Classical World
Radicals in the Age of Revolution saw the classical world as a common inheritance that could aid their fight for liberty.
by
Francesca Langer
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Aeon
on
May 30, 2023
Slavery's Revolutions In Louisiana
Comparing the results of two Louisiana slave rebellions 20 years apart and what that meant for the continuation of slavery within the Deep South.
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Patrick Luck
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Age of Revolutions
on
June 27, 2022
How Slavery Ended Slowly, and Emancipation Laws Often Kept the Enslaved in Bondage
Tufts Professor Kris Manjapra examines the history of the injustice of abolition in the U.S. and abroad and the need for reparations in his new book.
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Taylor McNeil
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TuftsNow
on
June 15, 2022
A Reckoning With How Slavery Ended
A new book examines the ways white slaveholders were compensated, while formerly enslaved people were not.
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Eric Herschthal
via
The New Republic
on
April 15, 2022
American Revolutionary Geographies Online
Discover the stories, spaces, and people of the American Revolutionary War era through maps, interpretive essays, and interactives.
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American Revolutionary Geographies Online
on
February 8, 2022
Just Give Me My Equality
Amidst growing suspicion that equality talk is cheap, a new book explains where egalitarianism went wrong—and what it still has to offer.
by
Teresa M. Bejan
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Boston Review
on
February 7, 2022
Making Sugar, Making ‘Coolies’
Chinese laborers toiled alongside Black workers on 19th-century Louisiana plantations.
by
Moon-Ho Jung
via
The Conversation
on
January 13, 2022
The Marine Who Turned Against U.S. Empire
What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?
by
Patrick Iber
via
The New Republic
on
January 11, 2022
What Is the Relationship Between Democracy and Authoritarianism?
The Age of Revolution inaugurated a new era in modern history defined not only by new democratic institutions but also by despots and charismatic leaders.
by
Tyler Stovall
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The Nation
on
December 14, 2021
Public Thinker: Destin Jenkins on Breaking Bonds
“What if we identified the politics of municipal debt as circumscribing political horizons and futures?”
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Destin Jenkins
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Hannah Appel
via
Public Books
on
December 13, 2021
U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again
The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.
by
Jonathan M. Katz
via
Foreign Policy
on
July 13, 2021
Democracy’s Demagogues
A new history of five heroes of the revolutionary period considers the power and instability of charismatic leadership.
by
Ferdinand Mount
via
New York Review of Books
on
January 14, 2021
The Jesuits and Slavery
Despite extensive historiography, most people are not aware that the Society of Jesus owned people.
by
Adam Rothman
via
Journal Of Jesuit Studies
on
December 15, 2020
Atlantic Slavery: An Eternal War
Julia Gaffield reviews two books that discuss the transatlantic slave trade.
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Julia Gaffield
via
Public Books
on
November 30, 2020
With Friends Like These
On early American attempts to kick out foreigners.
by
Julia Rose Kraut
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
August 4, 2020
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The American Founders Celebrated the Storming of the Bastille
They understood that revolution means dismantling old power structures, violently if necessary.
by
Zara Anishanslin
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Made By History
on
July 14, 2020
Why It's Right That the Theodore Roosevelt Statue Comes Down
Like the museum behind it, the monument was designed in large part to train white people in a fundamentally racist way of seeing.
by
Nick Mirzoeff
via
Hyperallergic
on
June 30, 2020
The Confederate Project
What the Confederacy actually was: a proslavery anti-democratic state, dedicated to the proposition that all men were not created equal.
by
Stephanie McCurry
via
Medium
on
June 16, 2020
How Pandemics Change History
The historian Frank M. Snowden discusses the politics of restricting travel during epidemics and more.
by
Frank M. Snowden
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Isaac Chotiner
via
The New Yorker
on
March 3, 2020
Slave Hounds and Abolition in the Americas
How dogs permeated slave societies and bolstered European ambitions for colonial expansion and social domination.
by
Tyler D. Parry
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Charlton W. Yingling
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Past & Present
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February 4, 2020
When W.E.B. Du Bois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist
Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.
by
Ian Frazier
via
The New Yorker
on
August 19, 2019
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