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The Author’s Corner with CJ Martin

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 8, 2024

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 […]

The Author’s Corner with Kenneth S. Sacks

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 18, 2024

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 30, 2024

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 17, 2024

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  August 23, 2024

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 10, 2024

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

John Fea   |  January 19, 2024

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”

John Fea   |  December 16, 2023

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 ā€œpoisoning the blood of our country.ā€ The comments […]

The Author’s Corner with James M. Thomas

Rachel Petroziello   |  October 12, 2023

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”

John Fea   |  October 7, 2023

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

John Fea   |  September 12, 2023

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

John Fea   |  August 4, 2023

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 5, 2023

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 People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement  (Princeton University Press, […]

The Author’s Corner with Kevin McQueeney

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 30, 2023

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?

John Fea   |  May 3, 2023

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 27, 2023

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

John Fea   |  March 21, 2023

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

John Fea   |  February 22, 2023

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

Rachel Petroziello   |  February 21, 2023

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

John Fea   |  December 16, 2022

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 […]

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