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.
Tag: #ActivistHistory
From Steamship to Phonograph: Frederick Douglass, David Blight, and the Politics of Memory
We may not have to listen to Frederick Douglass, but isn’t it extraordinary that we can choose to do so?
Editors’ Pick: Our Favorites from a Year of #ActivistHistory
Your demand that we live in an equitable society grounded in a sound understanding of the ways historic inequalities continue to shape the present gives us hope for a brighter future. Thank you!
Historians Activate!: The Year in Activist History
Our work as historians involves studying prior forms of exploitation, abuse, and inequality. Doing this work, we believe, requires that we struggle against their iterations in the present.
