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Mae Ngai was one of the 140+ artists and scholars who has called for New York City to reverse their decision to relocate the Roosevelt Statue, formerly located at the American Museum of Natural History, to North Dakota. Mae Ngai will also be teaching “American History: Immigration and Life” as part of Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Inaugural Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College in Summer 2022.

Feb 22, 2022

Mae Ngai was one of the 140+ artists and scholars who has called for New York City to reverse their decision to relocate the Roosevelt Statue, formerly located at the American Museum of Natural History, to North Dakota. Ngai will also be teaching “American History: Immigration and Life” as part of Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Inaugural Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College in Summer 2022.

According to Columbia University history professor Eric Foner, the Reconstruction era began more than a year before the end of the Civil War, when Abraham Lincoln, the country’s first Republican president, “announced a plan to establish governments in the South loyal to the Union.” These governments backed legislation guaranteeing Black Americans’ rights and were vehemently opposed by the counter-revolutionary “Redemption” movement that swept the South.

Feb 22, 2022

Eric Foner is quoted in CNN Politics‘ “America has a long history of resisting multiracial democracy.”

In the newest issue of WMQ, Natasha Lightfoot explores unlikely ways that mid-nineteenth-century enslaved people in the Caribbean learned that their bondage was unlawful through Eliza Moore’s efforts to self-emancipate.

Feb 21, 2022

In the newest issue of William & Mary Quarterly, Natasha Lightfoot explores unlikely ways that mid-nineteenth-century enslaved people in the Caribbean learned that their bondage was unlawful through Eliza Moore’s efforts to self-emancipate: “’So Far to Leeward’: Eliza Moore’s Fugitive Cosmopolitan Routes to Freedom in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean.
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