On today’s ST, we are discussing a new book on race relations and American history that offers a bold, thorough, and eye-opening critique of our nation’s criminal...
Dedication, warmth, and the answers — prize-winning teachers have it all
Carolyn Roberts — the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize
“Carolyn Roberts, assistant professor of history...
How do we reduce crime, especially amid calls to defund the police?
While many point to rising crime rates as an indicator that more funding is needed, studies show almost no...
The death of Ronald Greene, a Black man who died in Louisiana in 2019 after a police chase is under scrutiny after newly released police body camera footage shows he was...
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — For her first book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime,” the historian Elizabeth Hinton spent years digging through government archives, piecing...
Matthew Frye Jacobson, who has transformed understandings of race in America, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History, effective April 17....
Matthew Frye Jacobson, who has transformed understandings of race in America, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of American Studies and History, effective April 17....
Columbia University’s African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS) Department invites applications for a position of Postdoctoral Research Scholar to begin July 1,...
On the coattails of two senior faculty hires in African American studies, the department — in conjunction with the humanities and English departments — recently hired three...
“Sometimes, it feels like I’ve been writing this book all my life,” says Daphne A. Brooks, author of the recently released Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual...
