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History Matters

  • Making Our Dreams Come True?: A Retrospective on Laverne & Shirley and the “Single-Girl” Sitcom
    June 19, 2026

    Making Our Dreams Come True?: A Retrospective on Laverne & Shirley and the “Single-Girl” Sitcom

    Kate L. Flach
  • A Surprising History of “Jail, No Bail”
    March 26, 2026

    A Surprising History of “Jail, No Bail”

    Say Burgin
  • Black History Month Celebrates 100 Years, Can it Survive the Trump Administration?
    March 7, 2026

    Black History Month Celebrates 100 Years, Can it Survive the Trump Administration?

    Sibylla Nash
  • Mayor Mamdani, the Schomburg Collection’s Qur’an, and Schomburg’s Vision of Afro-Diasporic History
    March 6, 2026

    Mayor Mamdani, the Schomburg Collection’s Qur’an, and Schomburg’s Vision of Afro-Diasporic History

    Regina Mills
  • Casualty and Legitimacy: A Post-1979 Perspective on Iran’s 2026 Mass Violence
    March 6, 2026

    Casualty and Legitimacy: A Post-1979 Perspective on Iran’s 2026 Mass Violence

    Keanu Heydari
  • “Something of a Hero”: 50 Years Since the Taxi Driver
    February 10, 2026

    “Something of a Hero”: 50 Years Since the Taxi Driver

    Jason A. Higgins
  • A Continuum of Federal Violence: A History of Indigenous-US relations in Minnesota in the Wake of the Murders of Nicole Renee Good and Alex Pretti 
    February 9, 2026

    A Continuum of Federal Violence: A History of Indigenous-US relations in Minnesota in the Wake of the Murders of Nicole Renee Good and Alex Pretti 

    John R. Legg
  • “I Was Called, Too:” The Life and Work of Coretta Scott King
    January 19, 2026

    “I Was Called, Too:” The Life and Work of Coretta Scott King

    Kristopher Bryan Burrell
  • Understanding Trump’s Donroe Doctrine on Venezuela: What the Progressive Era Teaches us about US Imperialism
    January 7, 2026

    Understanding Trump’s Donroe Doctrine on Venezuela: What the Progressive Era Teaches us about US Imperialism

    Eben Levey
  • What the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Can Teach Us Fifty Years Later
    November 10, 2025

    What the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Can Teach Us Fifty Years Later

    Jerald Podair
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