An Anti-Islamophobic President?
Can Muslim Americans trust Joe Biden to be an anti-Islamophobic president? Or, will they face more of the same in a long history of American Islamophobic policy?
Tag: history activism
Infectious Nationalism: Pericles and Public Health Crises
Our world is a global system, and we need to see beyond ourselves more than the President is inclined. Stronger international collaborations would pay off. So also would a good dose of humility in face of the coronavirus.
Book Review: How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi’s much-anticipated second book, How to Be An Antiracist, hit shelves across the world last month.
Call for Contributors: Antiracism in America
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2019 issue, “Antiracism in America.”
Call for Contributors: “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our May 2019 issue, “Recovering Queer Histories in Unexpected Places.”
What Does it Mean to Be an Activist Historian?: A Roundtable with the Editors
“I see my duty as an activist-historian to also uplift the voices of other activist-historians who may not be traditional historians, but are doing essential historical work, by highlighting their historical-activism on any platform available and joining them in direct action whenever possible.”
Protesting the Confederacy on Campus
For fifty years, Middle Tennessee State University’s black students have protested the pervasiveness of the Confederacy on their campus. This is their story, from the past to the present.
Confronting History at the March for Our Lives
The messy realities of the past rarely make for the pithiest of signs. And the reality of private gun ownership in the United States is not that it enjoys the support of an eighteenth-century amendment, but that it enjoys the support of twenty-first-century legislative and judicial interpretations of that amendment.
New Year’s Lessons from the History of Secession
No matter how divided the country is today, no matter the defeats of the past several years, there remains room to be both grateful and vigilant.
Protesting Invisibility in Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland developed during the early twentieth century as a sundown suburb: an area covering more than ten square miles where racial restrictive deed covenants prevented African Americans from owning or renting homes.
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