“The Shame Is Not Ours”: Roots, Episode 1
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Blue and Gold Professor of Black Studies and History at…
Browsing: Reviews
Sands of War: Patton’s Desert Training Center on Film
Once it became clear that Americans would be fighting in the deserts of North Africa…
Underground: The Modern Story of Enslaved Runaways
Every Wednesday for the past month, Twitter has lit up with comments about the new…
Carol and the Boundaries of Lesbian History
There is a powerful moment in director Todd Haynes’ lush and moving film Carol that does not…
Jeanne Houck reviews Hamilton
[Crossposted from The American Historian Online] Jeanne Houck (Ph.D., NYU) is a public historian and filmmaker…
Beyond Redemption: A Review of “Allegiance: A New Musical Inspired by a True Story”
When Allegiance began its official run at the Longacre Theatre on November 8, it became…
Stonewall and the Politics of Memory
Timothy Stewart-Winter is an assistant professor of history at Rutgers University-Newark and the author of…
From Roots to The Book of Negroes: Black Slavery and the General Viewing Audience
Erica Armstrong Dunbar is an associate professor of Black Studies and History at the University…
Punk in the Chocolate City: A Review of Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, D.C. (1980–90)
Mike Amezcua is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his…
On The Cherokee Rose, Historical Fiction, and Silences in the Archives
Martha S. Jones is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan on…