Manisha Sinha 
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SOURCE: Slate
10/31/19
Historians Manisha Sinha, Kate Clifford Larson, and Milton Sernett Interviewed for Article on Historical Accuracy of Harriet Film
"What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"
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SOURCE: UCONN Magazine
Accessed 1/29/19
No Kanye, That's Not How it Happened
History professor Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.
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SOURCE: UCONN
10-3-18 (accessed)
Manisha Sinha’s history lessons tell the truth about slavery in the United States.
No, Kanye, that’s not how it happened.
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7/30/18
Manisha Sinha got death threats after writing an article comparing Donald Trump to Andrew Johnson
by Rick Shenkman
The University of Connecticut professor is fine. The suspect has been identified.
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2/16/18
What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
by Robin Lindley
Her new book, "The Slave's Cause," rewrites the history of abolitionism.
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SOURCE: History Workshop Online
2-24-13
Manisha Sinha: Lincoln Again
Manisha Sinha is a professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of “The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina” and the forthcoming “The Slave’s Cause: Abolition and the Origins of America’s Interracial Democracy.”The “Lincoln industry,” through which Abraham Lincoln has become the most-written about American, used to be confined to historians and other writers. But between the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth in 2009 and the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation in 2013, a period during which the nation’s first black President continuously paid homage to the sixteenth President, Lincoln has come to reign unchallenged in popular culture too, nowhere more so than in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, which was considered by many an Oscar favorite. Perhaps historical criticism has proven to be a kiss of death for the film’s chances.
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SOURCE: NYT
2-24-13
Manisha Sinha: The Forgotten Emancipationists
Manisha Sinha is a professor of Afro-American studies and history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of “The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina” and the forthcoming “The Slave’s Cause: Abolition and the Origins of America’s Interracial Democracy.”On the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, discussion over who freed the slaves, fueled by movies like “Lincoln,” have become commonplace. While historians have debated the relative roles of Abraham Lincoln and the slaves themselves in the coming of emancipation, few have paid attention to the abolitionists, the forgotten emancipationists in the story of black freedom.
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