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Winners of the 2021 Bancroft Prize announced

John Fea   |  March 24, 2021

Andy Horowitz won for Katrina: A History, 1915-2015. Claudio Saint won for Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. Here is the press release from Columbia University: Columbia University Libraries has announced that two...

Who are these members of SHEAR who “support the idea that white supremacists actually have a legitimate argument?” I don’t think we have met.

John Fea   |  August 10, 2020

Some of you who read this blog are familiar with the controversy going on in the Society for the History of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). You can get up to speed with these posts. We also interviewed Dan Feller...

Was Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy genocidal?

John Fea   |  August 4, 2020

Some of you have been following the Dan Feller controversy at SHEAR. Get up to speed with Episode 72 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. You can also read my posts on this controversy here. After Feller delivered...

What I wrote about Trump and Andrew Jackson in *Believe Me*

John Fea   |  July 21, 2020

I am not an Andrew Jackson scholar, but I have taught him for more than two decades. In the U.S. survey I usually frame my treatment of Jackson in terms of the tensions between what historian Harry Watson calls “Liberty...

"It was about the extension of white supremacy"

John Fea   |  April 21, 2017

I just finished lecturing on Andrew Jackson in my U.S. survey course.  (Actually, I still need to cover the bank crisis. I will do that in lecture on Monday).  One of the central themes of this lecture is that Jackson’s...

Trump, Jackson, Native Americans, and a Pipeline

John Fea   |  January 25, 2017

I’ve been thinking today about Trump’s decision to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipeline project.  The decision reverses Barack Obama’s rejection of the pipeline for environmental reasons. Anyone who has followed this story knows that several Native American groups are...

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Episode 51: “The Politics of Tinky Winky”

January 27, 2023 By John Fea

He was Florida’s professor of the year in 2006. Today his courses would be illegal.

January 27, 2023 By John Fea

Zakaria: The nation’s policy on classified documents and “secrecy” is “out-of-control”

January 27, 2023 By John Fea

Teaching John Henry Newman’s “What is a University”

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