When We All Burn: Understanding the “Long 2010s” with “Long 1960s” U.S. in the World Historiography

Philip LaRue It was the “mass protest decade”—not the “long 1960s,” but the “long 2010s,” beginning with 2008’s global financial crisis. Journalist Vincent Bevins traveled the globe in search of lessons from the past decade’s global street revolt in 2023’s If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution. Bevins argues that “by taking a truly global approach, we can see which factors … Continue reading When We All Burn: Understanding the “Long 2010s” with “Long 1960s” U.S. in the World Historiography

Historia y Guerra en la Niebla: Historical Vagueness in Disney’s Encanto

Miguel Ángel Torres Yunda Encanto (2021) details the lives of the Madrigal family and the struggle to heal from generational trauma. From the beginning of Encanto, the film focuses on setting the location of Encanto as a Colombian town by displaying items such as arepas, sombreros vueltiaos, mochilas Wayuu, ajiaco soup, or with Colombia written on maps or painted on the side of a house. … Continue reading Historia y Guerra en la Niebla: Historical Vagueness in Disney’s Encanto