Yesterday we called your attention to the American Historical Association’s resolution on “scholasticide” in Gaza. Get up to speed here. Today, New York Times columnist Pamela Paul, who attended the AHA business meeting where the resolution was approved, weighs in. […]
history and activism
Jill Lepore on “the hold of the dead over the living”
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, historian Jill Lepore discusses her recent collection of essays, The Deadline, with the magazine’s law editor, Julien Crockett. Here is a taste of the interview: JULIEN CROCKETT: In the introduction to your […]
Episode 123: “Drew Gilpin Faust on Growing-Up at Midcentury”
She was a privileged baby boomer who grew up on a horse farm in segregated Virginia. By her twenty-first birthday she had worked for peace in Communist Europe, traveled the country in the cause of racial justice, marched for voting rights […]