How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a
new History Workshop series on Indigenous historical methods.
Donald Trump's January 20th Executive Order is a harmful attack on queer and transgender healthcare education, but it will be resisted. Lucy Kelly turns to the legacy of queer activists and allies in the struggle for AIDS education in the…
What can we learn from the lives and legacies of Black radical women? Tionne Alliyah Parris considers how the transnational activism of Claudia Jones, Vicki Garvin and Louise Thompson Patterson offers us a guide to action now.
What does a pandemic look like when remembered through someone's personal archive? Sarath Pillai reflects on the value of dream diaries and insurance forms in the history of the AIDS pandemic.
On the 50 year anniversary of the coup in Chile, Maria Vasquez-Aguilar offers a personal testimony of the impact of that day and the continued activism of the Chilean people.
How was the eighteenth-century pursuit of knowledge intertwined with enslavement and empire? Lucy Moynihan on the history of literary institutions in the British colonial world.
Julie Hardwick, Marybeth Hamilton, Kate Gibson, Sarah Roddy, Orsi Husz, Andrew Popp & Alexia Yates
What does it mean to write "intimate histories" of economic life? How might a focus on "the intimate" transform the way historians perceive and describe the economic past?
The term 'racial capitalism' has been widely used by activists and historians. Catherine Hall turns to the 18th century entanglements between Jamaica and England to reflect on the shifting forms of racial capitalism across generations.
Who were Alexander Hamilton’s blood relatives? What did they value and how did this influence the founding father’s own attitudes toward slavery? Richard Addington explores.
Feminist history often focusses on salvaging the experiences of women from the margins of history. But how is feminist history challenged by women complicit it enslavement? Misha Ewen explores in this piece.
A letter that mistakenly made its way into the Freud Archives reveals hidden tensions in the history of psychoanalysis - and, as Agnes Meadows explores, in the nature of archives themselves.
How did enslaved women calculate risks when petitioning for their freedom in colonial Mexico? Amos Megged explores the complex life story of María de la Candelaria, arguing that enslaved women sought restitution of their rights, and…
Is the family a place of safety or a trap? Ruth Beecher explores the institution of the family and the (lack of) recognition of child sexual abuse within it.
