Tom Smith is Keasbey Research Fellow in American Studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. This interview is based on his new book, Word across the Water: American Protestant Missionaries, Pacific Worlds, and the Making of Imperial Histories (Cornell University Press, 2024). […]
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Jack Hibbs once again spreads falsehoods to his congregation. This time it’s about the Maui wildfires.
Megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs appears to have a habit of spreading false information. We have called him out several times for his wrong and outrageous claims about American history. Now Hibbs is making some wild and unsubstantiated claims about the […]
The Author’s Corner with Christen T. Sasaki
Christen T. Sasaki is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. This interview is based on her new book, Pacific Confluence: Fighting over the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Hawai’i (University of California Press, 2022). JF: What […]