“I speak the password primeval … . I give the sign of democracy,” wrote Walt Whitman in “Song of Myself.” “By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their...
Joanne Freeman has been elected president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic in their 2020 elections.
This new forum engages authors and artists—from very different places and writing in very different genres—in an ongoing conversation on “the uses and disadvantages of...
Elizabeth Hinton and Phillip Atiba Goff have been crossing paths for a long time.
With a mutual interest in policing, racial injustice, and criminal reform, Hinton, a...
In the year 1000, the Vikings became the first Europeans to set foot in North America. A few years later, they began trading fur pelts with an Indigenous group, possibly the...
The Sublime Post: A History of Empire and Power through the Ottoman Post Station System, 1600-1839
Dr. Koh’s dissertation, completed at Yale University, carefully excavates...
As a scholar of international history, Arne Westad studies the past to better understand today’s most pressing global challenges.
It’s an approach Westad imparts to his...
