Remembering Race in Virginia
On July 30, 2019, exactly four hundred years after the inaugural meeting of the Virginia General Assembly, President Donald Trump…
Building “Christian Fellowship”: Asian American Student Activism on the West Coast
In his latest book, The End of White Christian America, Robert Jones notes that white Christians currently comprise only 45%…
Beyond Miss America 1968: A Feminist History
Alix Kates Shulman Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Photograph copyright Alix Kates Shulman; used…
Why the Portuguese Restoration of 1640 Matters to the History of American Slavery
Where did American slavery come from? Sweeping questions like that rarely yield clear answers, least of all from nuance-loving historians…
Football and Opiates in America Unraveling Dense Histories
In 2016, five years after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared opiate-related morbidity and mortality a national…
Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969
This summer, millions of people around the world will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, when thousands of…
Tear Gas and the U.S. Border
Many Americans spent the last hours of Thanksgiving weekend glued to the television. They were not watching football, however. They…
Inside the JAH: Species of Sovereignty
“Species of Sovereignty: Native Nationhood, the United States, and International Law, 1783–1795,” might be my longest-running academic project, having first…
