11/28: Nicole Hemmer on “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics”
Most Americans trace the origins of conservative media to the rise of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News in the 1980s
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11/14: Manisha Sinha on “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition”
Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns
Read more11/7: Amanda Moniz on “From Empire to Humanity: The American Revolution and the Origins of Humanitarianism”
The burgeoning of American and British humanitarianism in the late eighteenth century has often been understood as an outgrowth of
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