“The Shame Is Not Ours”: Roots, Episode 1
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Blue and Gold Professor of Black Studies and History at…
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This Week on Process: Roots
As you may know, the History channel, A&E network, has produced a new miniseries based on…
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Sands of War: Patton’s Desert Training Center on Film
Once it became clear that Americans would be fighting in the deserts of North Africa…
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Podcast: History and Presence
In the May 2016 installment of the Journal of American History podcast, Ed Linenthal, executive editor of…
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Money Makes History: Harriet Tubman and the Face Value of U.S. Currency
“Who is Harriet Tubman?” This was the most popular Google search on April 20, 2016,…
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This Muslim American Life
Check out Keith Feldman’s review of This Muslim American Life in the May 2016 issue of The American…
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Black Lives (and) Matter: George Zimmerman’s Gun and Artifacts of Racial Violence in American History
On May 11, 2016, Florida man George Zimmerman put the handgun he used to kill…
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The Historical Foundations of Abundance
Historians are so obsessed with discerning or making new “turns” these days that it may…
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Skill Building through Game Building in a Public History Class
Phillip Payne is a professor of history and department chair at St. Bonaventure University where…
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Between Memory and History: U.S.-Cuba Rapprochement in a Time of Remembrance
[From the May issue of The American Historian] Louis A. Pérez Jr. is the J. Carlyle…