As many of you know, Current will officially drop on April 5, 2021. On that day we will publish five short essays (and an editor’s introduction) on the left side of this website. We are excited to announce our opening...
Agnes Howard
“Hamilton” Minus Music?
Yale University historian Joanne Freeman recently released her Library of America volume The Essential Hamilton: Letters and Other Writings. In a short review at The New York Times, John Williams described it as “Hamilton Minus Music,” or, “a more direct (if less rhyming) way...
Let’s Not Forget Pope Francis is a Latin American
Writing at The Anxious Bench blog, Gordon College history professor Agnes Howard offers a unique angle on Pope Francis’s visit to the United States. She wants us to think harder about the Pope’s identity as a Latin American, his advocacy of...