In an interview with NPR, Professor Claudrena Harold attributes crucial contributions of working people to the many facets of development in the US. https://www.npr.org/2021/09/04/1033177379/labor-day-history-triangle-shirtwaste-factory-fire-patco-strike
Laurent Dubois provided insight on Haiti’s earthquake and political future. https://the1a.org/segments/taliban-haiti-cuba/
In a recent blog for Columbia University Press, Professor Justene Hill Edwards reflects on African Americans’ complicated legacy of patriotism.
In a recent op-ed for the Washington Post, Professor Liz Varon explains how the removal of Confederate statues will give us a clearer view of the complex Southern past.
Since the news broke of the assassination of Haiti’s president, Jovenel Moïse, University of Virginia scholars who focus on Haiti have been busy answering media questions about the country.
Three professors whose scholarship focuses on the tumultuous history and politics of this nation – Marlene Daut, Laurent Dubois and Robert Fatton – have been providing background and suggesting possible next steps, but at the same time are surprised at the mystery of who carried out the attack and who’s leading the country, saying it’s a dangerous time for Haiti.
Recommended summer reading: Alan Taylor’s American Republics, Justene Hill Edwards’ Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina, and Philip Zelikow’s The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War.
Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks features the most exciting history scholars in America discussing their books live with host William Roka, followed by a Q&A with home audiences. On June 13, 2021, Professor Max Edelson discussed his book The New Map of Empire: How Britain Imagined America before Independence. https://www.gilderlehrman.org/programs-and-events/book-breaks/book-breaks-archive
The French National Library's digital press collections has a podcast series on crime and the press. Each episode focuses on a particular crime or event that made the headlines in France, and consists of a conversation with a scholar of the crime/event and a scholar of the press in that time/place. The series just released an episode featuring Professor Jennifer Session and Arthur Asseraf ( Cambridge). On this episode, Professors Sessions and Asseraf discuss the Margueritte revolt in Algeria.
Professor Neeti Nair writes an op-ed in the Indian Express on the demolition of the National Archives of India Annexe. In this op-ed, Professor Nair writes: "The demolition of the annexe and the uncertainty over its collection may affect the kind of narratives we are able to craft. So long as scholars are able to access regional and state archives across India, they will be able to write regional histories. So long as they are able to collect oral histories, they will be able to tell stories of past struggles and successes that might have not been deemed worthy of “official” archives.
