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Selma and the International History of American Civil Rights
Mary L. Dudziak | May 1, 2015
When peaceful civil rights marchers were brutally beaten in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, the world react... -
History as a Book Discipline: An Introduction
Seth Denbo | Apr 1, 2015
Bookwheel, from Agostino Ramelli’s Le diverse et artifiose machine, 1588.As I read the literature on... -
The Opportunity Costs of Remaining a Book Discipline
Lara Putnam | Apr 1, 2015
For more than a decade, we have declared monograph publishing in crisis.1 Do structural shifts make ... -
Is Digital Publishing Killing Books?
Claire Bond Potter | Apr 1, 2015
In 2013, I was on a plenary session at the AHA annual meeting where then-president William Cronon em... -
Disserations Are Not Books
Fredrika J. Teute | Apr 1, 2015
Published monographs are usually a prerequisite for securing permanent membership in the history gui... -
The Changing Forms of History
Timothy J. Gilfoyle | Apr 1, 2015
Should history be a book discipline? It depends. By some measures, history in the Western world has ... -
Toward a People's History of Climate Change
Pallavi Das | Feb 1, 2015
As I was searching for newspaper articles on the environment in India, an article on climate change ... -
Marx in the Mountains: Poverty and Environment in and outside of the Classroom
G S Rosenthal | Feb 1, 2015
What is the relationship between environment and poverty? I asked my students this question at the M... -
Decolonizing the Newspaper: The Historian and the Op-Ed
Frank P. Barajas | Feb 1, 2015
In a democratic society, debate over ideas and an appreciation for the past are dependent on multipl... -
Academia in Prison: The Role of the University in an Era of Mass Incarceration
Kelsey Kauffman | Feb 1, 2015
In August 2012, two friends and I started a small college program at the Indiana Women’s Prison (IWP...
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