Call for Contributors: Antiracism in America
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2019 issue, “Antiracism in America.”
Tag: History
A Voice Not Heard at Home
To the present and past Mexican farmworker families of Tulare County: I write for you and walk alongside you. Mis vecinos, you are right. You belong here, just as your history of endurance and resilience belongs in our archives.
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.”
An Exhibit on 1950s Life Reproduces Segregation
The BOOM exhibit successfully erases the Black experience in Montgomery County during the 1950s.
Neoliberalism, the Public Intellectual, and the Decline of History
Modern scholars who want their work to reach audiences beyond their students and colleagues may find role models in the history of their own discipline.
White Americans Fail to Address Their Family Histories
There is a conversation about race that white families are just not having. This is mine.
Call for Papers: The Activist History Review’s 2018 Conference on Power
The Activist History Review invites proposals for its annual conference on June 16, 2018, organized around the theme of power.
Call for Contributors for March 2018 Issue, “Is It Time to Bury Neoliberalism?”
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our March issue, “Is It Time to Bury Neoliberalism?: Writing History in the Present Tense.”
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.
