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Call for Contributors: White Supremacy in the University
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our November issue: “White Supremacy in the University.” Submissions are due October 21st.
#FightingForWright: Our Strike to Preserve the Academic Mission of Our University
The most gratifying and telling support that we received during the strike was from students.
Call For Papers: Black Resistance to Slavery and its Afterlives
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our February 2020 issue: Black Resistance to Slavery and its Afterlives
The Colonization of Puerto Rico and the Limits of Impeachment
It is misleading to call impeachment “justice” when it reflects the priorities of empire.
The Rise of Skywalker’s Activist Historian
Beaumont Kin is a good example of how those within the profession should embrace the activist historian mantle in our own time and in our own, very real world.
Community Activism in Colonial Pennsylvania: How Popular Participation Became State Policy
The broader citizenship did not passively wait for elite men to decide how their government should work. Instead, they mobilized and created political structures based on a rich history of broad-based political participation.
The People Take on the Elites: Democratic vs. Authoritarian Populism
What the Establishment really fears is a challenge to the status quo and the empowerment of ordinary people—a democratization of politics rather than the mere administration of the state by political insiders.
The Time for Equality is Now!
The cravenly undemocratic ethos of the Republican Party is reaching new heights in their desperation to retain power at any cost. Theirs are not the actions of a government responsible to the people, but those of a cabal of self-interested elites.
Review: Frozen 2 Calls Us To Reject Empire Capitalism
Western wealth was taken, not by innovation and ingenuity, as we have long told ourselves, but by “murder, mutilation, and downright robbery.”
A Week in the Life of Ole Miss: February 2019 and the Fight to Take Down the Confederate Statue
“At the University of Mississippi, the incompetence and unwillingness of the administration to address Confederate symbols further entrenches white supremacy. It is, as they say, a feature and not a bug.”
White Supremacy in the Academy: The 1913 Meeting of the American Historical Association
The men of the Dunning School might not advise theses any more, and the historical interpretations these men crafted might now be largely discredited and discarded. But their legacies remain.
What SUNY Albany Tells Us About the Policing of University Space
By examining the rise of university police departments at State University of New York at Albany, the first SUNY school to arm their campus police officers, this article provides a historical perspective to better understand contemporary instances of racialized policing behind university gates.
