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 write Reckoning […]
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The Author’s Corner with Sean M. Kelley
Sean M. Kelley is Professor of History at the University of Essex. This interview is based on his new book, American Slavers: Merchants, Mariners, and the Transatlantic Commerce in Captives, 1644-1865 (Yale University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
The Author’s Corner with Jane Hooper
Jane Hooper is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate History Programs at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Ohio University Press, 2022). JF: […]
The Author’s Corner with John Harris
John Harris is McDonald-Boswell Assistant Professor of History at Erskine College. This interview is based on his new book, The Last Slave Ships: New York and the End of the Middle Passage (Yale University Press, 2020). JF: What led you […]
New Hampshire’s “An Act Relative to Teachers’ Loyalty” has little to do with the teaching of American history
Here is Eileen O’Connor of the Concord Monitor: Just one year after New Hampshire legislators first introduced a bill that banned the teaching or discussion of “divisive concepts” like systemic racism, another bill will be debated this legislative session that […]