As part of HWO’s ‘Remembering Stonewall’ feature, writer and activist Nivea Castro recounts her own memories of the riot in New York City in 1969.
Author: Marybeth Hamilton
Schooners and Schoonermen, My Grandfather and Me
How do our family stories shape our sense of what constitutes “history”? The historian Julia Laite explores.
Season 2, Episode 1: Historical Fiction and the Perils of Family Story
Author Emma Darwin discusses trying, and failing, to write a novel about her insanely eminent family.
History Workshop’s Radical Books of the Year
What books most inspired your radical imagination in 2018? History Workshop’s editors weigh in with an end-of-year roundup of their favourite reads.
Episode 6: Radical Feminism and 1968 – Interview with Alice Echols
How did demands for the liberation of women emerge from the tumult of radical protest?
Remembering 1968: The S.C.U.M. Manifesto for the Society for Cutting up Men
Marybeth Hamilton on Valerie Solanas’ the SCUM Manifesto for the Society for Cutting up Men.
Episode 5: Historic Passions – Interview with Nell Irvin Painter
In this episode, the first in a series, we turn to historic passions: the strong and sometimes obsessive pull of curiosity about the past. Hear Marybeth Hamilton’s interview with Nell Irvin Painter, visual artist, author and historian.
Virtual Special Issue: Historic Passions
A special free-access issue bringing together twenty-four essays published as part of the “Historic Passions” occasional feature in History Workshop Journal.
Roundtable: ‘Governing the World’ by Mark Mazower
Six commentators reflect on the scope, the limits, and the implications of Mazower’s argument in his recent book Governing the World, a sweeping and provocative account of the expansive vision of global political cooperation
Terence Ranger: Life as Historiography
An interview with African historian, Terence Ranger, by Diane Jeater
