This video features statements by three local activists in Ferguson, Missouri who joined the movement to protest police violence after the shooting of Michael Brown last summer.
In this interview, Darlene Clark Hine speaks about a subject she has long tried to forget: The painful decision the OAH made in 2000 to stand up to the racist practices of the Adam’s Mark Hotel. The controversy broke just as Professor Hine was preparing to take-over as the new president of the OAH.
In this video clip from a workshop conducted at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Mark Carnes is training teachers who will be running games to help students understand history in their own classrooms.
A well-known professor, Jonathan Zimmerman is celebrated for writing more op eds than probably any other living historian. We wanted to know what the secret of his success is.
Jonathan Pritchett and Charles Calomiris presented a paper about the economics of slavery at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians.
Jeannance Freeman was convicted of murdering the two children of her lesbian lover. In this interview Ms. Gutterman breaks the taboo of gay historians who have shied away from stories that tend to reinforce stereotypes about gays.
Robert Poch observes that the New York Times inadvertently misconstrued Arizona’s immigration fight with the Department of Justice. The Times claimed it was a modern example of nullification. It wasn’t, says Poch.
A remarkable day featuring an unconventional address by Patty Limerick, a panel of Ferguson activists, and the passage of a resolution demanding the Redskins change their name.
