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David Rosner, Merlin Chowkwanyun and Jerry Markowitz are receiving the Archivists Round Table Award for Innovative Use of Archives for developing Toxicdocs.com, a website of 19 million previously secret corporate documents, which will be presented at the CUNY Graduate Center on October 17th.
Professor Kim Phillips-Fein reviewed Nancy Fraser’s Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It for the International Review of Social History.
Kim Phillips-Fein reviewed Nancy Fraser’s Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It for the International Review of Social History. Read the review here.
Marc Van De Mieroop has published the fourth edition of his text, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC.
Marc Van De Mieroop has published the fourth edition of his text, A History of the Ancient Near East ca. 3000 – 323 BC. Read more 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.
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.
