History doesn’t disappear when you shut down a website, threaten a museum’s funding, or remove museum exhibits. We carry the past within us.
Why GOP Attempts to Sanitize History Will Fail
How Serbia’s Students Are Trying to Change Their Dysfunctional Country
“To see the dignity, strength and enthusiasm of the students, their refusal to be drawn into violence, and their commitment to spreading compassion and unity is remarkable.”
H.D.: Following Intricate Song’s Lost Measure
The extraordinary life and work of Hilda Doolittle, who wrote under the pen name H.D. mirrors the turbulent events of the 20th century.
A Tale of Two Presidents
“The room was small, dim and a desiccated yellow colour but the handshake and welcome were warm and clearly genuine. The man who once held the most powerful job in the world was dressed in casual shades of black and grey.”
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker: critical race politics and the transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles
Corridos: (Mostly) True Stories in Verse With Music
Although mass media and scholars regularly document, analyze, and interpret important events, such documentations and interpretations are seldom from the perspective of the common folk, el pueblo.
Johann Gottfried Herder: Faith as silent spirituality
“The lovely words ′human kindness′ have become so trivial […] and yet this should be the goal of our striving.”
How Free is Free: Ben Shahn, the Statue of Liberty, and the History of American Art
Historians of American art are engaged in a search for ways in which to speak meaningfully and broadly about contested traditions and about both the promises and limits of the country’s national iconography and history, to a nation fragmented along racial, ethnic, class, and religious lines.
Korean Folk Painting: Minhwa
“The power of Minhwa lies ultimately in the fact that it participates in a universal code — a common denominator for all living human beings, a core of desires and beliefs that is tied to basic human activities … “
Dorothea Lange and the Japanese-American Internment
The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006
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