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American Pulse Project

December 7, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg How will the moment of time in which you live be remembered? Will Occupy Wall Street or the anti-Trump movement be written into history as the 1968 of the 21st century? Are our lives a turning point in the political, economic, or social conditions of the modern world? For Rutgers University History […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: american history, current events, History, political science, public history, Public Scholarship, rutgers university, sociology, united states, united states history

Remembering Lincoln

November 13, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Do your great-great-great-grandparents remember where they were on the evening of April 14, 1865? Though this may not be a question most of us ask ourselves, it is one that might be answered by exploring the digital archives of the Remembering Lincoln project. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln left a mark not only on […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: abraham lincoln, american history, american studies, Archives, History, Preservation, public history, sociology

Sexing History

October 26, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg Some people may not consider history to be the sexiest topic, but for podcast hosts Lauren Gutterman and Gillian Frank, the histories of sex and sexuality are unique keys to understanding both the past and the present. Sexing History brings these lesser-known stories of history to life through short-form podcast storytelling rather […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Gender Studies, gillian frank, History, history of sex, history of sexuality, lauren gutterman, Podcast, public history, queer history, sex, sexuality

The Brooklyn Institute for Social Research

October 16, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Ajay Singh Chaudhary taught the first course of what would become the country-wide nonprofit interdisciplinary teaching and research institute, the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, in New York City in 2012. This single course about Plato and Aristotle, initiated by a recent Columbia University Comparative Literature PhD, has grown into a national organization with active […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: brooklyn institute, communism, continuing education, marxism, Philosophy, public history, Public Scholarship, school, Teaching

Mapping Slavery in Detroit

October 3, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg The history of slavery in Detroit was largely absent from public representations of the city’s history when Tiya Miles began the “Mapping Slavery in Detroit” website. As the Chair of the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies and Professor of History and Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Miles collaborated […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: african american history, detroit, midwest, public history, slavery, tiya miles

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