History

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The fate of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1587 "Lost Colony" on Roanoke Island has been one of the most endur…

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From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterwa…

Josiah Ober

The Threshold of Democracy re-creates the intellectual dynamics of one of the most formative periods…

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Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of …

Imani Perry

The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history.…

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The Crisis of Catiline situates students in Rome in 63 BCE during a time of urban and rural tumult, …

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In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a deb…

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In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the…

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDFINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYBy the late 1960s…

Eric Williams

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and me…

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When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding b…

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Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fire…