CJ Martin is Visiting Assistant Professor at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. This interview is based on his new book, The Precious Birthright: Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode […]
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The Author’s Corner with Kenneth S. Sacks
Kenneth S. Sacks is Professor of History and Classics at Brown University. This interview is based on his new book, Emerson’s Civil Wars: Spirit and Society in the Age of Abolition (Cambridge University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with Katie Singer
Katie Singer is a public scholar, writer, and activist. This interview is based on her new book, Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark (Rutgers University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Alien Soil? KS: I wrote Alien […]
The Author’s Corner with Court Carney
Court Carney is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University. This interview is based on his new book, Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and Memory (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What led you to writeĀ Reckoning […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthew L. Harris
Matthew L. Harris is Professor of History and Director of Legal Studies atĀ Colorado State University – Pueblo. This interview is based on his new book, Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2024). JF: […]
The Author’s Corner with Jeffrey S. Adler
Jeffrey S. Adler is Professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. This interview is based on his new book, Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality (University […]
What Nikki Haley gets right and what she gets wrong about slavery and race in America
My message to Nikki Haley’s staff: Please hire a historian. First there was this: Just to be clear, the Civil War was about slavery. We addressed this here. Then there was this: And then there was last night’s CNN town […]
Trump tonight in New Hampshire: Immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
Here is CNN: Former President Donald Trump doubled down on language condemned for its ties to White supremacist rhetoric, saying at a campaign event in New Hampshire on Saturday that immigrants are āpoisoning the blood of our country.ā The comments […]
The Author’s Corner with James M. Thomas
James M. Thomas is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. This interview is based on his new book, The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line (University of […]
Trump: Immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
Some of my critics often say that I have “Trump derangement syndrome.” I usually ignore these criticisms since those who make them are in danger of normalizing Trump, Trumpism, and his rhetoric. I refuse to do that. Donald Trump’s brand […]
White supremacists converge on Eastern Nazarene College
Last month I called your attention to a migrant shelter hosted by Eastern Nazarene College, a Christian college in Quincy, Massachusetts. You can read “Eastern Nazarene College: An Evangelical School Doing Evangelical Things” here. Here is the latest from The […]
John McWhorter on the Florida African American history curriculum
I took a little heat for my take on the Florida African American history controversy. Last month I wrote: The standards were much better than I expected. If I was a high school teacher in Florida I could easily work […]
The Author’s Corner with Hajar Yazdiha
Hajar Yazdiha is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. This interview is based on her new book, The Struggle for the Peopleās King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement (Princeton University Press, […]
The Author’s Corner with Kevin McQueeney
Kevin McQueeney is Assistant Professor of History at Nicholls State University. This interview is based on his new book, A City without Care: 300 Years of Racism, Health Disparities, and Health Care Activism in New Orleans (University of North Carolina […]
What happened when a black rabbit and a white rabbit got married?
Here is historian Cynthia Greenlee at The New York Times: In May 1959, the former Alabama schoolteacher Dora Haynes Parker mused about the sexual habits and matrimonial customs of rabbits in a letter to her hometown newspaper, The Montgomery Advertiser. […]
The Author’s Corner with Leslie A. Schwalm
Leslie A. Schwalm is Professor Emeritus of History and Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. This interview is based on her new book, Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America (University of North Carolina […]
On the privileged progressives who preach anti-racism
Over at Christian Century, a liberal Protestant magazine, Baylor University ethicist Jonathan Tran argues that “privileged progressives have turned their attention from structures and systems to sentimentalism.” Here is a taste of his piece: Detached from practiced commitments and practical […]
Two divergent explanations of Southern inequality
Over at Dissent, political scientist Jared Loggins reviews Adolph Reed’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives and Imani Perry’s South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of a Nation. (See my review of […]
The Author’s Corner with Kathleen M. Brown
Kathleen M. Brown is David Boies Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. This interview is based on her new book, Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). JF: What […]
Goodbye Roger Taney
Earlier this week my U.S. history survey students answered a final exam essay question on the short-term causes of the American Civil War. I haven’t graded their essays yet, but if their blue books do not contain something about Roger […]