“Columbia University has received a $1 million grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation to create web-based, interactive maps of Manhattan and Brooklyn during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The three-year project is a collaboration of Columbia’s History Department and the Center for Spatial Research in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP).” Mae Ngai and Rebecca Kobrin are two of three principal investigators for the project. 

Mark Mazower‘s new book What You Did Not Tell was reviewed on World Socialist Web Site.

The War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo won the 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize, one of the two main annual awards for European museums. Harun Buljina, PhD Student, authored the proposal for this new prize.

Frank Guridy‘s article, “What’s Good For Boyle Heights Has Been Good at the Los Angeles Coliseum,” was featured in Kalfou, a Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies.

Newsweek Japan Features Cover Story on Carol Gluck‘s “War Stories” Discussion Group.

Rashid Khalidi was quoted in The Hill‘s “The Memo: Trump rolls the dice on Jerusalem.”