Category: History

  • Races, Ethnicities, and Cultures Mix More Freely Than Elsewhere in the U.S., But There Are Limits to the Aloha Spirit

  • Racist Hysteria to Pragmatic Rapprochement? The German Debate about Rhenish ‘Occupation Children’, 1920–30 Contemporary European History Volume 22, Issue 2, May 2013 pages 155-180 DOI: 10.1017/S0960777313000039 Julia Roos, Associate Professor of History Indiana University, Bloomington This essay revisits 1920s German debates over the illegitimate children of the Rhineland occupation to examine hitherto neglected fluctuations in…

  • This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa.

  • The Lives of Frederick Douglass Harvard University Press February 2016 350 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 9 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780674055810 Robert S. Levine, Professor of English and a Distinguished University Professor University of Maryland Frederick Douglass’s fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of…

  • Understanding Race on Black London history walk Sociology in the City: blogging from Sociology at the University of Westminster University of Westminster London, United Kingdom 2015-02-20 Students of the first year module Understanding Race went on a walking tour this morning, led by the writer and historian Steve Martin. Challenging the popular idea that race…

  • Poet’s Muse: A Footnote to Beethoven The New York Times 2009-04-02 Felicia R. Lee Haydn almost certainly encountered him as a child in a Hungarian castle, where the boy’s father was a servant and Haydn was the director of music, and Thomas Jefferson saw him performing in Paris in 1789: a 9-year-old biracial violin prodigy…

  • In Search of the Black Mozart BBC Radio 4 2015-07-19 and 2015-07-26 Sarah Taylor, Producer Historian Steve Martin and Double Bassist Chi-chi Nwanoku Chi-chi Nwanoku has spent her career travelling and performing in concert halls the world over as the principal double bassist of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. More recently, she’s been…

  • Victoria Bynum to speak on the “Free State of Jones” at the Lauren Rogers Museum “Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker Collection” (2015-09-06 through 2015-11-15) Lauren Rogers Museum of Art 565 N. Fifth Avenue Laurel, Mississippi 39440 2015-09-10, 17:30 CDT (Local Time) Vikki Bynum, Emeritus Professor of History Texas State University, San Marcos I’m…

  • In Conversation: Quentin Tarantino Vulture 2015-08-23 Lane Brown, Culture Editor Midway through postproduction on his eighth movie, the Western THE HATEFUL EIGHT — about a band of outlaws trapped in a saloon during a blizzard — the director discusses the country’s legacy of white supremacy, Obama, and why he doesn’t worry about a Transformers future.…

  • From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again What It Means to Be American: Hosted by The Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square 2015-08-31 Laua Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Kibei Nisei, 30 x 45 inches Oil on canvas (2012) A Painter Follows the Currents of Her Family…