Review: The Crown and Decolonization
It is important to recognize The Crown is not about decolonization directly; it is fundamentally a drama about internal palace tensions and the Queen’s relationship with her people and government.
Category: July 2017
Time for a Revolution
Revolutions afford a peculiar opportunity for a discussion of how historians think about time more generally. Does a revolution always represent a fundamental rupture within historical time?
“In Our Own Interests”: The Destructive History of Nationalism in the Habsburg Monarchy and What It Means for White Nationalists
The triumphalism in [nationalist] narrative[s] ignores the destructive nature of nationalism while also legitimizing it as a real and natural occurrence, despite the bulk of nationalist theory showing that it is far from that. By relying on this narrative, we may fail to see the danger present in new nationalist movements such as the recently emergent White Nationalism.
American Consumer Empire in Puerto Rico
Puerto Ricans were forced to become “Porto Ricans” – adopting Anglo customs and holidays all while subsidizing American profits – without the hope of equality.
Dark Side of Jacksonian Democracy: Revolution and Racist Oppression
President Jackson and Trump’s particular brands of democracy share a streak of racist oppression and both inspired especially personal resistance movements.
‘Domestic Insurrections Amongst Us’: A Critical Historiography of Slave Flight in the American Revolution
These scholars have forced historians of all persuasions to take slave flight seriously. The historical canon will be better for it.
Exultations, Agonies, and Love: The Romantics and the Haitian Revolution
The impact of Haitian slaves’ successes fundamentally changed the ways in which imperial governments in Europe viewed enslaved Africans in their empires.
Undeclaring Independence: White Liberals and the Erasure of American History
The violence of imperialism was a daily occurrence. Our support for reparations for that violence should be as well.
Jeff Sessions vs. “The Secular Mindset”
On Independence Day, we commemorate the conception of a secular state, the only form of state that can accommodate a diversity of thought.
A Patriotic Day of Protest
Today’s activists would be wise to take a page from history and use the Fourth of July holiday to illuminate the ways in which American society is becoming ever more unequal.
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