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Q&A with Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of "Building the Black City"
Nov 08 2024
In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.
Q&A with Allen James Fromherz, author of "The Center of the World"
Nov 04 2024
For over 4000 years, the Gulf—sometimes called the Persian Gulf—has been a global crossroads while managing to avoid control by the world’s greatest empires. Allen Fromherz explains why.
Lessons from the Middle East – 'the epicentre of climate discourse' – for a warming planet
Oct 14 2024
As climate change intensifies, we can learn a lot from the way that the Middle East has dealt with extreme heat. The region offers invaluable lessons – both cautionary and inspirational – for our warming world.
Rewriting the story of horses and human history
Sep 05 2024
Archaeologist William T. Taylor shares a behind-the-scenes tour of the fieldwork and discoveries that inspired HOOF BEATS, a new book that explores how horses forever altered the course of human history.
How a Slave Trader’s Hymn Became a Global Anthem
Dec 12 2023
By James Walvin, author of Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved HymnIt may seem odd for a historian of slavery to write a history of a popular hymn. In fact, the link between “Amazing Grace” and slavery is clear and fairly obvious: the author of “Amazing Grace,” John Newton, had bee
Notes on Archival War
Nov 01 2023
Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.
Indian Wars everywhere?
Oct 26 2023
Stefan Aune on the cultural hold the Indian Wars have in the United States and on its military.
Lessons from the Wobblies for Labor Activism Today
Dec 19 2022
By Ahmed White, author of Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical WorkersIn the late 1910s and early 1920s, the Industrial Workers of the World was the target of the most intensive campaign of state-sponsored repression in American history. A story of violence, law,