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Over the summer, Greg Mann and his workshop partners organized the Projet Archives des Femmes (PAF) workshop in Bamako, Mali.
Frank Guridy’s newest book, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play is now available through Basic Books.
Frank Guridy’s newest book, The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play is now available through Basic Books. Read reviews by the Washington Post, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and listen to Professor Guridy’s interview with NPR on Fresh Air discussing the role of the stadium in American political and cultural life.
James Tejani (PhD 2009) has published A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America
James Tejani (PhD 2009) has published A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth: The Making of the Port of Los Angeles and America (W. W. Norton, July 2024), which explores how America’s global gateway – the busiest container port in the Western hemisphere – came to be from mud and salt marsh. The tale spans to Washington, DC, New York City, the Pacific Northwest, Civil War Richmond, Southwest deserts, and even overseas to Europe, Hawaii, and Asia as it follows Mexican ranchers, US frontier explorers, imperialist politicians like Jefferson Davis and Theodore Roosevelt, land speculators (among them Civil War general Edward Ord), and railroad titans like Collis Huntington and Edward H. Harriman.
Kim Phillips-Fein published a review of Luke Nichter’s The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 for The London Review of Books.
Kim Phillips-Fein published a review of Luke Nichter’s The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 for The London Review of Books, exploring the unusual circumstances surrounding the 1968 election, including Lyndon B. Johnson’s decision to drop out of the race and Richard Nixon’s behind-the-scenes political manuevering.
Angelo Caglioti published an article in Past and Present on the origins of Italian settler colonialism in the perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism.
Angelo Caglioti published an article in Past and Present on the origins of Italian settler colonialism in the perspective of the environmental history of European imperialism. It argues that the Italian project to turn the highlands of the Horn of Africa into a settler colony was an “imperial mirage”: the perception that the momentarily depopulated landscape of Ethiopia, produced by “natural” disasters that were in fact the social products of colonial warfare, would be available to Italian settlers in the future. This mirage was based on a domino effect of environmental catastrophes connecting climate history, animal disease, and the politics of European imperialism. Thus, the article explains the battle of Adwa (1896) as the result of willful ignorance and wishful self-deception that fueled Italian colonization projects.
Susan Pedersen published an article in Granta on Gerald Balfour’s relationship with Winifred Coombe Tennant, a politician, suffragist, and medium whose “automatic writings” predicted that she would birth a child of great historical importance.
Susan Pedersen published an article in Granta on Gerald Balfour’s relationship with Winifred Coombe Tennant, a politician, suffragist, and medium whose “automatic writings” predicted that she would birth a child of great historical importance. Read more here.
Michael Stanislawski has recieved a Festschrift (an edited volume honoring a noted academic) in honor of his contributions to the field of European Jewish History.
Michael Stanislawski has recieved a Festschrift (an edited volume honoring a noted academic) in honor of his contributions to the field of European Jewish History. The Festschrift, entitled “A Jew in the Street”: New Perspectives on European Jewish History in Honor of Michael Stanislawski, was edited by Nancy Sinkoff, Jonathan Karp, James Loeffler, and Howard Lupovich, and contains an essay by Elisheva Carlebach and sixteen other Columbia PhD’s who studied with Stanislawski. See more here.
Kim Phillips-Fein authored a review of John Ganz’s publication When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which explores the history of right-wing politics throughout the 1990s in America.
Kim Phillips-Fein authored a review of John Ganz’s publication When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s in The Chronicle of Higher Education, which explores the history of right-wing politics throughout the 1990s in America. Read the review here.
Pamela Smith was awarded the 2024 International Prize for Research in Cultural History by the Hans and Helga Eckensberger Foundation in collaboration with the Herzog August Library.
Pamela Smith was awarded the 2024 International Prize for Research in Cultural History by the Hans and Helga Eckensberger Foundation in collaboration with the Herzog August Library. The award honors distinguished researchers who work in the field of cultural history with a focus on the history of knowledge. As part of the award, Professor Smith organized a summer session with Tina Asmussen, Asst. Professor for early modern mining history at the Ruhr University Bochum, entitled “MINESCAPES: Socio-Natural Landscapes of Extraction and Knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period”, which took place from May 31 to June 10, 2024 at the Herzog August Library. Read more about the award here.
Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The Nation’s June issue on Project 2025 exploring the evolution of the Heritage Foundation’s manual since 1980
Kim Phillips-Fein published an article in The Nation’s June issue on Project 2025 exploring the evolution of the Heritage Foundation’s operating manual since 1980. Read it here.
