The Liberal Party of New York and Independent Labor Politics
This piece is a response to our recent Call for Submissions: Histories of Labor in…
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“One Can Sense a New Wave of Pro-life Activism Coming from College Campuses”: Anti-Abortion “Rescues” and Youth Activism in the 1990s Midwest
An anti-abortion activist smashes a pro-choice poster at a rally on the University of Wisconsin-Madison…
The Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: An Imperfect Memory, but a Useful Warning
To say that Russia’s war against Ukraine has escalated in the past month is no…
The Histories of Epidemics in the United States
To assist teachers who are working to historicize the COVID-19 pandemic and to offer our…
The Histories of Epidemics in the United States
Over the past year, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed daily life in the United States.…
Black Women, Police Violence, and Gentrification
On September 15, six months after Louisville Metro Police Department officers killed Breonna Taylor in…
George Floyd and the End of American Hegemony
An “I can’t breathe” sign in London’s Trafalgar Square. The hashtag #PapuanLivesMatter in Indonesia. Monuments…
Toppling Columbus, Recasting Italian Americans
In response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Black Lives Matter demonstrators…
Presidential Misconduct, Historians, and History
Forty-five years ago, I was a member of the history faculty at Princeton. At that…
Hoboken is Burning: A Conversation on Gentrification, Arson, and Displacement
American cities in the 1970s and 1980s are usually understood as sites of decline and…