Lonnie Bunch’s retirement raises important questions about the future of our most cherished history museums, but there is important work to be done in our communities.

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Announcing Penn Press’s 2026 Summer Reading Sale! SALE EXTENDED! Through Friday, June 12 Monday, June 15, receive 40% off available books on pennpress.org with promo code PENN-SUMMER26 at checkout. Or...

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How did human rights and development come to be so intertwined in U.S. foreign policy?

David Perry shares about his new book, The Public Scholar, on episode 621 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Everyone understands politics through their own life. The range of experiences that led me to spend mine thinking about politics preceded my experience of the challenges and opportunities of studyi...

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Today’s Supreme Court justices bristle at the label “politicians in robes,” insisting that they operate above the fray of partisan politics. But for th...

Since 2002, the UNCW History Department has hosted an annual lecture series established to honor two lifelong learners and friends of the department, Virginia and Derrick Sherman.

It was my absolute pleasure to chat with Dr. Yvonne Chireau, author of the iconic Black Magic and official Hoodoo consultant for Ryan Coogler’s latest smash hit, Sinners. If you don’t know her work, p...

Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. In the Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, c...

Giving an interview to the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Professor Oona A. Hathaway—Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of

The Georgia State University College of Law is home to the new Emmet J. Bondurant Center for Constitutional Law, Practice & Democracy. The center is named for Emmet J. Bondurant, a prominent trial law...

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Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?