On Jan. 30, Yale professor Lisa Lowe held a lecture titled “Colonial Histories of the Present,” which navigated America’s history of colonialism, slavery and discrimination to study how each evolved ...

The film features George Washington recounting the early history of the United States, from the arrival of various peoples to the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It discusses the colonization of ...

“Star Wars” has always been about fighting fascist dictatorships, from its very beginning when George Lucas took inspiration from the Vietnam War to present a story of fighting against an evil empire.

Among the flurry of executive orders that Donald Trump issued on the first day of his return to office was a peculiar one: to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Claiming to ...

It's a surprising and overlooked story, a blind spot in the narrative of early America: the hidden history of Indigenous ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...

Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies Ned Blackhawk’s (Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone) fourth book, “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples And The Unmaking of U.S. History, ...

Until recently, it seemed we, Britons, would do anything to get the attention of the world’s most powerful superpower. Up to and including becoming embroiled in ill-conceived wars in Iraq and ...

Tufts University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation US. One of the most pervasive myths about colonial Latin American society is that it was Catholic, full stop. It’s a ...

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