December 22, 2014
—Nancy Stout I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that what I heard most clearly in President Obama’s recent speech on U.S. normalization of relations with Cuba were his reassuring words… READ MORE
December 19, 2014
—Theresa Morris On December 15, Kim Simon posted a piece on Huffington Post entitled, “10 Ways C-Sections and Vaginal Births Are Exactly the Same.” I saw this posted on Facebook… READ MORE
December 16, 2014
To celebrate the stellar Publishers Weekly review that just came in for our forthcoming book, Fighting over the Founders, we are giving away a free copy to two lucky winners! In Fighting over the Founders, Andrew M…. READ MORE
December 10, 2014
—Sameena Mulla Let me begin with my conclusion: there is not only a campus rape crisis in the U.S; rather, there is a rape crisis in the U.S. and college… READ MORE
December 5, 2014
—Andrew M. Schocket Research can be boring, draining, sometimes physically or emotionally exhausting. For previous projects, I’ve logged weeks worth of time doing data entry, and have had students who have dealt with… READ MORE
December 3, 2014
—Peter G. Vellon A recent letter to the editor published in the New York Daily News expressed its disappointment that television commenters covering the Columbus Day Parade used the words… READ MORE
November 26, 2014
—Andrew Guthrie Ferguson On Monday, at 9:00pm, the nation anxiously awaited the decision of twelve ordinary citizens. National and international media prepared to report on the collective efforts of the… READ MORE
November 25, 2014
In Brooklyn’s Promised Land, historian Judith Wellman sheds light on the virtually lost history of Weeksville, an independent free black community in nineteenth-century Brooklyn. Founded after slavery ended in New York State in… READ MORE