Juneteenth and National New Beginnings
Monday, Jun 29, 2020
Dr. Tera W. Hunter discusses the importance of Juneteenth.
History
The Good of All: Lorraine Hansberry's radical imagination
Thursday, May 7, 2020
Hansberry "did not assume she knew all the answers, but she did want to see a less violent and more revolutionary world brought into existence. Hansberry never survived to see that world, but Perry’s recovery of her vision has made it all the more possible."The 2020 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in History: Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Tuesday, May 5, 2020
A deeply researched and rigorously argued account of the public-private partnership that replaced redlining with even more predatory and destructive practices.[Opinion] We Really Still Need Howard Zinn
Monday, Jan 13, 2020
Howard Zinn wrote one of the most popular books on American history ever. A People’s History of the United States has sold an astonishing two million copies since its first publication in 1980. The success of the book can also be measured by the way that it spawned a new genre of “people-centered” renditions of history. Zinn’s approach to history essentially inverted the traditional approach that placed the rich and powerful, along with the institutions they governed, as the central motors in the development of society. It was history told from above. Alternatively, Zinn championed an approach to history from the bottom up or from the perspective of “the people.”History: Trenton in the ’60s
Wednesday, Jul 17, 2019
A research and civic-engagement project delves into an uprising and its aftermathDonald Goines and the Birth of Black Pulp Fiction
Thursday, May 23, 2019
Donald Joseph Goines was born on December 15, 1936, in Chicago. Father Joseph and mother Myrtle were hardworking migrants from the South who had managed to open up their own cleaning store. Around 1940 the family, which included older sister Marie, relocated to Detroit and resumed the cleaning business. It was in the Motor City that, according to biographer Eddie B. Allen Jr., Goines started down a dark path.What is Tamil for Loss? Remembering the Sri Lankan Civil War
Thursday, May 23, 2019
My grandmother always reminds me: you have lost your mother-tongue. When I return to Sri Lanka for brief visits, she tells me how I used to understand her. Like my nephews and nieces do now when I was a child, I would listen to spoken Tamil and reply in English. There is nothing I can say to her accusation except to agree. Yes, I have lost my mother tongue, the words, the sounds, the rhythms of speaking to which I was born. I willfully lost this language, after we moved to Australia where my voice, my skin, my body continually marked me as foreign, different, other. As we all know, primary school children can be cruel: losing my mother-tongue was a way to survive.When Slaveowners Got Reparations
Wednesday, Apr 17, 2019
Lincoln signed a bill in 1862 that paid up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.Priests, scholars gather to celebrate Princeton’s Ethiopian manuscripts
Tuesday, Mar 19, 2019
Ethiopian scholars and priests shared their knowledge of Ethiopia’s ancient tradition of written literature and bound manuscripts with a large audience at Princeton on March 12.New Directions in Caribbean History
Friday, Feb 1, 2019
The catastrophic 2017 hurricane season, which included two category 5 storms, briefly thrust the islands of the Caribbean to the forefront of the U.S. news cycle. The deadly hurricanes highlighted the Caribbean’s heightened vulnerability to weather-related disasters and the devastating effects of climate change.
