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Kim Phillips-Fein contributed to Vital City’s Subway issue, sharing her experiences riding the subway as a young adult. Read the full article here.
Kim Phillips-Fein contributed to Vital City‘s Subway issue, sharing her experiences riding the subway as a young adult. Read the full article here.
Manan Ahmed is featured in the documentary Borderland: The Line Within, where he and other Columbia University digital humanists use government data to spot patterns in public spending that tell a story about where, and how, taxpayer money is spent at the border.
Manan Ahmed is featured in the documentary Borderland: The Line Within, where he and other Columbia University digital humanists use government data to spot patterns in public spending that tell a story about where, and how, taxpayer money is spent at the border. Read more here, and see more information about the film here.
David Rosner’s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History, will release on October 8th, 2024.
David Rosner‘s newest book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History, will release on October 8th, 2024. Through the lens of death and disease, Building the Worlds That Kill Us provides a new way of understanding the history of the United States from the colonial era to the present. David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz demonstrate that the changing rates and kinds of illnesses reflect social, political, and economic structures and inequalities of race, class, and gender. These deep inequities determine the disparate health experiences of rich and poor, Black and white, men and women, immigrant and native-born, boss and worker, Indigenous and settler.
Marc Van De Mieroop reviewed Bartle Bull’s Land Between the Rivers, a critical history of cultural and political development in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, for The New York Times.
Marc Van De Mieroop reviewed Bartle Bull’s Land Between the Rivers, a critical history of cultural and political development in the region between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, for The New York Times.
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.
