James Stafford published an article in the London Review of Books on Trump’s recent tariff announcements and the issues they pose for the international market, as well as the broader history of tariffs in the modern economic world. Read the full article...

Kim Phillips-Fein has won the 2025 LaGuardia Book Prize for her book Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. Professor Phillips-Fein will present a talk on this book at LaGuardia Community College on April 24th at 1:00 PM...

Kim Phillips-Fein was interviewed by Charter to discuss the parallels between the Trump Administration’s recent actions against federal workers and those of the Reagan Administration. Read the full interview in TIME...

Natasha Lightfoot will be presenting the Department of History at Sacred Heart University’s 2025 Endowed Lecture on 3/18 at 2:00 PM, where she will be presenting on a chapter of her new book in progress about an enslaved woman in the Caribbean who tries to free...

James Stafford reviewed Isaac Nakhimovsky’s The Holy Alliance: Liberalism and the Politics of Federation for the London Review of Books. Read the full review...