Erwin Rommel comes as close to being a household name in America as a Nazi general can get. […]
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As everyone with a Twitter feed already knows, Donald J. Trump is no friend of immigrants. In a […]
I recently contributed an essay to a volume that’s forthcoming from UNC Press called The Bohemian South. You can […]
Years ago, I saw a man at a Quaker meeting stand up and say, “Who you are begins […]
Panels at conferences often feel like a hastily assembled mishmash of different things, like a fruit salad made […]
Bernie Sanders thinks America was founded on racist principles. Sean Wilentz, the Pulitzer Prize nominated historian, disagrees. “The […]
History versus heritage? Memory versus history? Whose history and why? These questions are currently brewing a controversy at […]
“Here, and shockingly few other places in this country, men are paid to increase knowledge, to work toward […]