Navigating the World of Grand Strategy with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

The two historians talk to Public Seminar about Rethinking American Grand Strategy

Award-winning historians Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston spoke (virtually) with Public Seminar editorial intern Gregory Coleman to discuss their new book Rethinking American Grand Strategy (Oxford University Press, 2021). Edited by Nichols and Preston with fellow historian Elizabeth Borgwardt, the collection of curated essays discusses what American grand strategy ...
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Navigating the World of Grand Strategy with Christopher McKnight Nichols and Andrew Preston

An American Reckoning

The fire this time

In 1844, James Russell Lowell penned the anti-slavery poem “The Present Crisis” in response to the political tumult leading up to the Civil War. Inspired by Lowell’s poem, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) called its official magazine The Crisis, with W. E. B. Du Bois as ...
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An American Reckoning

Challenging the Perception of the Wayward Girl

An interview with Saidiya Hartman

Yannise Jean [YJ]: For this book, you took a different approach by structuring it like a fictional narrative. I think this structure really helps the reader get into the character's heads. Was this your intention during the outlining stages of your book? Saidiya Hartman [SH]: I write nonfiction. As I started to write ...
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Challenging the Perception of the Wayward Girl

Black Study, Black Struggle

Race Critical and Decolonial Sociology

This blog post is republished with the permission of the author, Alana Lentin, from her blog, alanalentin.net In April 2016, the Free University of Western Sydney was launched by a group of local people -- activists, teachers/educators and students -- critical of the neoliberal university’s capacity to be a site for ...
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Black Study, Black Struggle