Hoboken is Burning: A Conversation on Gentrification, Arson, and Displacement
American cities in the 1970s and 1980s are usually understood as sites of decline and…
Browsing: Violence
#MeToo, Networks of Complicity, and the 1920s Klan
Ku Klux Klan paraders, Muncie, Indiana, 1922. Image Courtesy of Ball State University Archives and Special Collections. The public outing of predatory men has changed public discourse about sexual assault. With the…
The Paradox of Gun History
I recently completed a book on the history of the gun industry, culture, and the…
Teaching the Pulse Massacre
The tragic shooting at Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, requires that we look…
Black Lives (and) Matter: George Zimmerman’s Gun and Artifacts of Racial Violence in American History
On May 11, 2016, Florida man George Zimmerman put the handgun he used to kill…
Refusing to Forget
Can you describe the Refusing to Forget project? Between 1910 and 1920 ethnic Mexicans were…
Kathleen Belew on Teaching Histories of Violence
Kathleen Belew is a postdoctoral fellow in History at Northwestern University. Her book, Bring the…