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The Sword and The Shield – A Conversation with Peniel E. Joseph (Part I)

August 17, 2020 by Stacy Vlasits

With Peniel Joseph  This is Part I of a conversation with Dr. Peniel Joseph. In this conversation, Dr Joseph discusses his new book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding […]

Filed Under: Features, Monthly Features, New Features Tagged With: black history, civil rights, civil rights movement, Malcolm X, martin luther king jr

Commemorating 9/11 in 2017

September 11, 2017 by Stacy Vlasits

Let’s end our week of commentary on September 11, 2001 with some images. Visualizing and re-visualizing shape our memories differently than describing and talking. Poetry, photography, and song open up different dimensions to understanding the past. Images keep the past present in different ways as well.

Filed Under: 2000s, Blog, Memory, United States Tagged With: 9/11, Paul Simon, photographs

Chan is Missing (1982)

June 21, 2016 by Stacy Vlasits

In this affectionate insider’s portrait of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1970s, director Wayne Wang riffs on the well-known adventures of Charlie Chan, the stereotyped Chinese-American 1930s film detective, by following the meandering investigation of two cab drivers.

Filed Under: Digital & Film, Watch Tagged With: Asian American history, California, chinatown, Chinatown San Francisco, film, film history, film noir, san francisco, Watch, Wayne Wang

Fathers & Sons

January 22, 2014 by Stacy Vlasits

by J Neuberger My father fought in North Africa and Italy during the Second World War. He didn’t like much of anything about being a soldier but he was proud to have helped to defeat Hitler. This photograph hung in our house and a painting of it hung in my grandmother’s apartment in New York […]

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Jacqueline Jones on the Myth of Race in America

January 2, 2014 by Stacy Vlasits

Like countless other cultures and countries throughout the world, the United States has its own creation myth—its own unique, dramatic story intended to explain where we came from and who we are today. In the case of the United States, this story holds that the nation was conceived in “racial” differences, and that over the last four centuries these self-evident differences have suffused our national character and shaped our national destiny. Yet America’s creation myth is just that—a myth, one that itself rests entirely on a spurious concept: For “race” itself is a fiction, one that has no basis in biology or any longstanding, consistent usage in human culture.

Filed Under: Features, Monthly Features

Seth Garfield on the Brazilian Amazon

December 1, 2013 by Stacy Vlasits

During World War II, the governments of Brazil and the United States made an unprecedented level of joint investment in the economy and infrastructure of the Amazon region. The dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1937-45) trumpeted the colonization and development of the Amazon (christened the “March to the West”) as a nationalist imperative to defend a sparsely settled frontier covering some sixty percent of Brazilian territory.

Filed Under: Features, Monthly Features Tagged With: Amazon, Brazil, business, labor history, rubber, Transnational, World War II

Selling ourselves short? PhDs Inside the Academy and Outside of the Professoriate

November 17, 2013 by Stacy Vlasits

In 2009 I wrote: “It is hard not to feel that I have sold myself short by deciding not to be an academic.” It is remarkable how my perspective has changed over four years and how my satisfaction in my work exceeds anything I might have hoped for.

Filed Under: 2000s, Blog, Education Tagged With: altac, careers, historians, jobs

Great Books on Rethinking the College Classroom

November 4, 2013 by Stacy Vlasits

A few of the most important and engaging books about teaching college students.

Filed Under: Books, Education, Topics

Exploring the Silk Route

October 8, 2013 by Stacy Vlasits

It’s the afternoon of a hot summer’s day and I am standing at the bottom of a staircase—with no handrails—that’s not so much set in to the side of a mountain as built on top of it. Way up there, at the top of four hundred fifty five stairs, there’s a shrine whose gleaming silver dome is barely visible in the afternoon sun. That’s our destination.

Filed Under: 2000s, Asia, Blog, Food/Drugs, Religion Tagged With: Central Asia, Christopher Rose, multicultural, prayer clothes, shrine, Silk Route, Uzbekistan

Soviet Baby Boomers: An Oral History of Russia’s Cold War Generation by Donald Raleigh (2013)

September 30, 2013 by Stacy Vlasits

Recalling his formative years as an American baby boomer and the influence the Cold War and the Soviet Union had on his worldview, Donald Raleigh asks what life was like for people his age in the Soviet Union? What were their concerns about the future? How did they spend their time and what did Cold War ideological battles mean for their daily lives?

Filed Under: 1900s, Books, Cold War, Europe, Periods, Regions, Topics Tagged With: Andrew Straw, Baby Boomers, Brezhnev, Cold War, Donald Raleigh, glasnost, Gorbachev, oral history, perestroika, Soviet Union, USSR

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