February 2017

The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 19, 2017 What role might historians committed to democratic and egalitarian politics play in challenging authoritarianism?  This essay takes on conventional claims that history is absent from public debate, and that it has “lessons” to teach, arguing instead that historical thinking is ever-present and…

Slate, February 3, 2017 This essay puts contemporary anti-immigrant politics in historical perspective by narrating clashes between rival ideas of the United States and its relationship to immigration: an asylum ideal which held that the United States, as a republic, must offer refuge to the oppressed of all nations, and…