This is a betrayal of history’s fundamental purpose: to learn from the past. If we ever aspire to become one nation, the entirety of our past, including the enslavement of an estimated 10 million people, must be acknowledged as our shared history.
Member states back Correct the Map campaign that urges governments and organisations to use more accurate map
Donald Trump joins a long line of apologists for America’s peculiar institution, falsifying history in the interest of whitewashing slavery.
How the 1937 Oshawa GM strike and radical industrial unionism reshaped labour—and why its lessons matter today
Historian Bennett Parten's new book, Somewhere Toward Freedom, focuses on the experience of those who seized a chance at emancipation. “Through the collective weight and power of their movement, [they] found a way to essentially be in the room.”
Adam Kirsch’s On Settler Colonialism is an anti-woke screed disguised as serious scholarship.
An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it.
While the most horrific acts of injustice in German courtrooms may have occurred during the reign of Hitler, in many ways the courts had been corrupted by right-wing extremism years before, and helped facilitate his rise to power.
This book looks at previously under examined aspects of Arendt's thinking, especially regarding issues of love, gender, and race, in order to probe more deeply into the work of one of the 20th century's most celebrated political thinkers.
Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.
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