This 25-minute talk explores creativity, suggesting that it’s less about individual ability, inherent talent, and social isolation–the genius in the attic–than about the curiosity, courage and grit that one cultivates best, in oneself and others, in a wider community.
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Talking about letters from the Philippines written by a soldier named Andrew Wadsworth from Nebraska between the years 1898 and 1900.
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Chinese Social Sciences Today, April 6, 2017 Immigration is a hotly debated issue in the United States. President Trump recently issued two executive orders—one that limits entry to the United States from certain Islamic countries and another that suspends the US Refugee Admission Program for 120 days— intensifying the discussion…
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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…
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These brief memos, written for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, discuss the writing of “Desert, Storm,” which the Center supported. They provide an overview of the essay, review the research process, and discusses reasons why the story may have remained largely unknown until now.
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Amerasia Journal 42:3 (2016) This short historiographic essay, part of a roundtable on the history of Pacific empires, describes three broadly-defined approaches to Pacific history: critical empire histories focusing on the Pacific as a space of European, US and Japanese military, colonial and commercial projection and inter-imperial war; indigenist histories…
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KCRW, Hosted by Madeleine Brand Feb. 10, 2016 If John Kasich won by coming in second place last night in New Hampshire, then Donald Trump really won when he took the top spot with Republican voters. He kicked off his victory speech with what is by now a familiar slogan: “Make America…
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A brief interview of contemporary U.S. immigration politics in historical perspective.