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The Author’s Corner with Marita Sturken

Rachel Petroziello   |  January 19, 2022

Marita Sturken is Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University Steinhardt. This interview is based on her new book, Terrorism in American Memory: Memorials, Museums, and Architecture in the Post-9/11 Era (NYU Press, 2022). JF: What led...

The Author’s Corner with John Bodnar

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 26, 2021

John Bodnar is Emeritus Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. This interview is based on his new book, Divided by Terror: American Patriotism after 9/11 (The University of North Carolina Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write Divided...

Who is ISIS-K?

John Fea   |  August 27, 2021

Like most Americans, I had never heard of ISIS-K before it claimed responsibility for yesterday’s attack at the Kabul airport. Amira Jadoon of West Point and Andrew Mines of George Washington University gets us up to speed in their recent...

Michelle Cottle offers a “dictionary for these polarized times”

John Fea   |  April 10, 2021

The premise of Cottle’s piece at The New York Times is that Democrats and Republicans no longer speak the same language. Take, for example, the phrase “fake news”: Pre-Trump, most folks thought of fake news as media sources that trafficked...

Putting the January 6, 2021 insurrection in historical context

John Fea   |  February 2, 2021

Catherine Halley of JSTOR Daily offers some great resources. Here is a taste of her January 7 piece: Yesterday our friends who teach sixth grade were asking: how do I talk to my students about the insurrection that just happened...

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