Evan C. Rothera is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith. This interview is based on his new book, Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880 (LSU Press, 2022)....
In a recent piece at The Atlantic, historian Geraldo Cadava debunks the myth of the “Latino vote.” Here is a taste: Americans of all races are engaging in debates about our national origins because we sense that something is broken....
John Marks is Historian and Public History Administrator for the American Association for State and Local History. This interview is based on his new book, Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas...
David C. Kirkpatrick is Assistant Professor of Religion at James Madison University. This interview is based on his new book A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019). JF: What...
Catholic University historian Julia G. Young believes that it does. Here is a taste of her piece “‘We Were Different‘”: A few years ago, I taught an undergraduate course on migration at the Catholic University of America. During one lecture,...
It’s that time of year again—Opening Day. Once again, host John Fea and producer Drew Dyrli Hermeling make their way to the ballpark and get ready to discuss Americas’1 pastime. This time around, they tackle race and ethnicity in baseball...
This is how American religious historian Thomas Tweed describes “Christ the Redeemer,” the statue of Jesus that looks down over Rio. Tweed’s reference to the statue as Brazil’s “Statue of Liberty” is from Michelle Boorstein’s recent Washington Post piece, “The Many Meanings...
Caitlin Fitz is Assistant Professor, Department of History, Northwestern University.  This interview is based on her new book, Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of American Revolutions (Liverlight/W.W. Norton, 2016). JF: What led you to write Our Sister Republics?...
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...
Michael Sean Winters of the National Catholic Reporter has been offering some very helpful commentary in the midst of the whole papal conclave and choice of Jorge Maria Bergoglio as Pope Francis. In this piece at The New Republic he...
Forgive my ignorance, but Brazil is huge! HT
Become a Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper reporter and award-winning author! Today’s interview in our continuing series, “So What CAN You Do With a History Major,” is with Sonia Nazario. Sonia has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most...
We have already expressed our outrage at Pat Robertson’s view of the earthquake in Haiti. But what exactly was he talking about when he said Haiti had made a pact with the devil? At the very least we can get […]
