Shaken Awake: The Nighttime Earthquake of 1783
By Katrin Kleemann Earthquakes in the United States? California is probably the first state that comes to mind. The largest...
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The Guilty Pleasures of the F.B.I: Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin
by Aija Oksman Ever since the early-twentieth century, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) considered writers (novelists and journalists alike)...
The Founding Fathers are Back from the Dead: 19th-Century Spiritualism and the American Civil Religion
By E. H. Messamore The 4th of July brings with it the usual paeans to the foundational principles of the...
An Incomplete Bob Dylan Playlist for 2022
By Nikolas A. Mariani Bob Dylan turned 81 last month. You’ll be forgiven, if your first thought upon reading those...
“What a nun is supposed to be”: Black Power and the National Black Sisters’ Conference
by Venus Bender In his 1971 speech “On the Relevance of the Church” at the Theological Union in Berkeley, California,...
Civil Rights & Civil Wrongs
How the Right Responded and Responds to Demands by Civil Rights Activists[i] By Georg Wolff In an academia where fetishized...
Breaking the Silence – #MeToo and the Reclaiming of the Feminist Framing of Sexual Harassment
By Nicole Colaianni In December 2017, Time magazine named “The Silence Breakers” as Person of the Year. It was the...
“A burnt child fears the fire”: Ku Klux Violence against African American Children in the Reconstruction Era
By Max Gaida Although the American Civil War had officially ended, the following two decades of Reconstruction saw a surge...