Chandra Manning is Special Advisor to the Dean at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. This interview is based on her new book, Troubled Refuge: Struggling for Freedom in the Civil War (Knopf, 2016). JF: What led...
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The Author's Corner with Amanda Moniz
Amanda Moniz is the Associate Director of the National History Center in Washington D.C. This interview is based on her new book From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution & the Origins of Humanitarianism (Oxford University Press, 2016). JF: What led you to...
Keith Grant Reports From the 2014 Omohundro Conference in Halifax
It is summer conference-going season and The Way of Improvement Leads Home is on the beat. A few days ago Liz Covart reported from the New York State History Conference in Poughkeepsie. Today we hear from Keith S. Grant, a...