This lecture and discussion over Zoom covers the practical do’s and don’t’s of launching your first academic book, with an eye towards both the steps you can take to help get your ideas out into the world, and the role this process can play for academic exchange and building and sustaining intellectual community. The discussion is introduced and hosted by historian Ilaria Scaglia of Aston University.
This introduction to a special forum on refugees in North American history discusses variations in scholars’ approaches to refugees, with some reconstructing the historical experiences, strategies, itineraries, and perspectives of refugees, and others focusing on the political work of the category and figure of the refugee, as delineating the causes …
This talk at the Spring 2018 Princeton symposium “The Future of the Puerto Rican Body,” held in response to Hurricane Maria and the bankruptcy crisis, uses recent scholarship to explore the historical relationship between Puerto Rican migration to the mainland US and US colonialism in Puerto Rico.
Lecture at the Society of U. S. Intellectual Historians, Chicago, November 10, 2018. This 12-minute talk to historians explores distinct elements of Trump’s racist politics, focusing on its stress on national borders and boundaries, its imperial globalism, and its enthusiasm for militarization and violence.
This essay discusses ongoing challenges in the historiography of U. S. colonialism, through a critique of Daniel Immerwahr’s 2016 article in Diplomatic History, “The Greater United States.” It discusses the ways Immerwahr’s article draws upon a number of widespread problems in this field: a terminological conflation of U. S. colonialism …
This piece puts the US Supreme Court’s upholding of the travel ban in an historical context. Supporters argued that the ban was about national security rather than racism; opponents that it was about racism rather than national security. But both sides separated logics that haven’t been separable: ideas of national …
C-SPAN June 22, 2018 A panel of historians discussed U.S. immigration policies and migration patterns to America dating back to the late 19th century. The topics covered in a session titled “The Geopolitics of Migration” include Chinese and Mexican immigration, travel restrictions in the civil rights era, and the criteria …
This panel discussion featuring Profs. Paul Kramer, David Weintraub and William Snyder at Vanderbilt University explores how and why university-based scholars present their work to broader publics.
This narrative essay recounts struggles over the Statue of Liberty’s symbolic relationship to immigration on the hundredth anniversary of its dedication, in 1986. The Reagan administration, which was actively excluding and deporting immigrants from Central America and the Caribbean, used the occasion to assert American exceptionalism and to celebrate the …
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