Public Historians: Trained for Pokémon Go?
Park guides at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, in Springfield, Illinois, are fond of…
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The Historical Stage Is Set for a Woman to Be Elected President
As the Democratic Party becomes the first major U.S. political party to nominate a woman…
Grounds for Dreaming
Can you briefly describe your book? My book Grounds for Dreaming takes readers into the…
Suffragette
The movie Suffragette is the first feature film dramatically depicting the monumental struggle for women’s…
Hearing History through the Sounds of Sesame Street
Could you briefly describe your project? I use the sounds of Sesame Street, a children’s…
There’s Nothing New about the “New Slavery”
About 45.8 million people in 167 countries live in some form of modern slavery according…
#CharlestonSyllabus
Could you briefly describe your book and how you created it? Keisha N. Blain: The…
Black and White in the Free State of Jones
I’ll confess: I was fully prepared to be disappointed with the recently-released Free State of…
Teaching the JAH: Robert Michael Morrissey on “The Power of the Ecotone”
“Rethinking early Native American history is a difficult enterprise,” Robert Morrissey argues. “Myths and stereotypes…
Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths
Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been…