No, Liberal Historians Can’t Tame Nationalism
Historians should reject nationalism and help readers to avoid its dangers.
Tag: History
Book Review: Radical Documentary and Global Crisis
Radical Documentary and Global Crisis feels both like a much-needed acknowledgment of the significant work so many activist filmmakers have put forth in the modern age and at the same time, a call for more activist, “radical” filmmaking in the years to come.
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?
Children Are Our Past
The stories of enslaved children not only deserve to be told, but also contribute new interpretations of the past, furthering studies of community, family, and resistance.
“No’m, I aint tellin’ no lies. It de gospel truf”: Historical Memory and the Slave Narrative Collection
by Sarah Whitwell How the past is remembered is as much a subject of historical inquiry as what transpired inContinue Reading
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.
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.
Clapperclawing White America: Black Protesters, the Kerner Commission, and Striving for an Antiracist Democracy
The anti-racist protests of the Kerner Commission reveal that if structural racism can be overcome in U.S. democracy, the moral weight of white supremacy must be eradicated otherwise democratic protest will forever be read as a threat.
Burning Borders: Disability Brought to Bear
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our October 2019 issue, “Burning Borders: Disability Brought to Bear.”
Call for Contributors: Antiracism in America
The Activist History Review invites proposals for our September 2019 issue, “Antiracism in America.”
The Activist History Review 