Jack Hill In the year 1868, the United States of America—scarcely recovered from its Civil War and barely able to call itself “united”—was a nation of fewer than 35 million souls, and around twelve percent of them bore the indelible mark of Africa in their ancestry. Slavery had been abolished in name, if not entirely in substance. In most of the country, Black Americans were … Continue reading W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Dilemma
Isabella Terrizzano Just before Saint Patrick’s Day 2025, twenty-seven years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, two Irish artists from opposing sides of Belfast performed on stage together, marking a historic cultural moment in this generation’s perception of Irish identity. To those unfamiliar with Irish history, this may seem unexciting; however, when placed in the context of the longstanding feud between unionists and … Continue reading Cultural Memory and Reimagining Irish Identity
Gavin Dunsby For scholars of 20th-century Spain, newspapers are an important source of information on the country’s rapid developments from the Spanish Civil War to the political violence of terrorist organizations that rocked Spain during the latter part of the century. Newspapers covered all of these events, even when threats of censorship, expulsion, or criminal prosecutions loomed over them. During the Franco regime (1939 to … Continue reading Franco and the Foreign Press in Post-WWII Spain
Madi Campbell Geopolitical tensions in international sporting events are not uncommon. From 1980 Lake Placid to 2025 Boston, geopolitics have historically boiled over in ice hockey, and this year’s Milan Olympics have been no exception. Even casual hockey fans know the story of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice” between the United States and the Soviet Union—especially as it became part of the mythos in the … Continue reading Miracle on Ice: International Hockey in Times of Geopolitical Turmoil
Patrick Grey Last week on Sunday, February 1, Bad Bunny became the first artist to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year for his record sung entirely in Spanish. His sixth studio album, “Debí Tirar Más Fotos,” discusses many themes such as Puerto Rican culture and diaspora, the island’s struggle with gentrification driving out locals, and a nostalgic call to keep our memories … Continue reading A Raciolinguistic Perspective? On the History of Spanish Speakers in the US in the Era of Bad Bunny
Tim Esau Please be advised that this essay contains artistic depictions of sexual violence and atrocity. When I first conceived of this article, I believed that while the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been justified by the lives they saved in Southeast Asia. Yet after the esteemed pProfessor Toshihiro Higuchi reviewed my equivocation-heavy first draft, he recommended a monograph titled Bombing Civilians that … Continue reading Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 2
Tim Esau Historians have long shirked moral judgements in their studies, favoring epistemological conservatism. Many fear the unavoidable presentism of moral judgements, thereby appealing to moral subjectivism. Thus, historians dread the damage done to “objective history” by bias or personal preference. One does not need to be an academic to recognize the contemporary preference towards epistemological conservatism which arose after the existential debates over objectivism … Continue reading Why We Should Care About Southeast Asians’ Reactions to the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Part 1
Fatma Esen On Sunday, November 2, 2025, Mary Tezak and I wandered through the Feriköy Antique Bazaar in Istanbul, looking for anything connected to our research on Hatay and Trabzon. Deep inside the market, we stopped at one of the largest stalls, crowded with old photographs and press materials. Digging through a box of mixed papers, postcards, newspapers, a wedding card written in Armenian, a … Continue reading A Forgotten Greek–Turkish Textbook: Mukālemāt-ı Türkiye-i Rûmiye ve Rûmiye-i Türkiye by Ioannis P. Miliopoulos
Ariel David Greenberg Just as Latin American history has been influenced by broader shifts in the field of history towards subjects such as the study of family, epidemics, and science, the field of Latin American history is increasingly being shaped by systems theory in analyzing the first genuinely global highways and institutions. It analyzes and interrogates the networks that operated as the highways of the … Continue reading State of the Field: Latin American History
Madi Campbell November 10, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, and its legacy undoubtedly continues to haunt Lake Superior. Once the largest Great Lakes freighter, the doomed ship was famously immortalized in Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot’s 1976 song “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” solidifying its status as a folk symbol. Each year, communities around the lake … Continue reading The Wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its Legacy in the Great Lakes
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