Heather Ann Thompson

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• SOURCE: JSTOR Daily
  9/28/2020
  

  How Mass Incarceration Has Shaped History

  Political forces pushing for mass incarceration have been closely connected to those restricting the power of labor and pressing to keep wages low. 

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• SOURCE: Michigan News
  10/18/19
  

  Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Heather Ann Thompson sees Detroit as central for carceral reform

  We’re poised for positive change with incredible energy to make our criminal justice system more just, and nowhere are we seeing that more than in Detroit. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/8/19
  

  For Stacey Abrams, a Date With History — or at Least the People Who Write It

  Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost the 2018 race for Georgia governor, visited the Library Company of Philadelphia for a conversation on voter suppression with historians Carol Anderson, Heather Ann Thompson, Heather Cox Richardson, and Kevin Kruse.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  4-28-18
  

  Heather Ann Thompson exposes what how a South Carolina prison riot really went down

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  In an article in the NYT she shared the stories inmates risked their lives to tell her about riot at Lee Correctional Institution that left seven dead.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-19-17
  

  Heather Ann Thompson says what went on at Attica is worse than we thought

  by Heather Ann Thompson

  Only now are we learning that inmates were used as guinea pigs in an experiment involving the virus that causes leprosy.

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• SOURCE: Michigan News
  4-10-17
  

  And the Pulitzer Prize in history goes to … ?

  The answer is Heather Ann Thompson for her book on the Attica Prison uprising.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Show
  1-25-17
  

  Heather Ann Thompson tells the story of the Attica prison uprising on The Daily Show

  Trevor Noah says the prison officials hid the truth for decades.

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• SOURCE: The Michigan Daily
  10-24-16
  

  National Book Award semifinalist Heather Ann Thompson says the war on crime started with LBJ

  She argues in her book on Attica that the slow downfall and ultimate economic collapse of Detroit began with the crime law he signed.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  8-23-16
  

  Heather Ann Thompson pries loose the long-kept secrets of Attica in her new book

  Her prize discovery was memos that showed how Nelson Rockefeller hammered out the state’s official version of the tragedy.