Historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale discussed student organizing and state repression, and talked about their new books, High School Students Unite! and A New Kind of Youth. This class wa...

Historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale discussed student organizing and state repression, and talked about their new books, High School Students Unite! and A New Kind of Youth. This class wa...

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

Ever since it was awarded the statue of Robert E. Lee by City Council in December 2021, the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center has been laser focused on its “Swords Into Plowshares Reca...

Cox to lead bipartisan task force requesting state-led migrant work visas.

Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.

August 6 will mark 61 years since the Voting Rights Act was passed. In 2026, the landmark federal law that prohibited racial discrimination in voting, and thus enfranchised hundreds of thousands of Bl...

We study whether Democratic college professors make their students more liberal. We link voter data to salary records from 33 state flagships and show that faculty skew Democratic, especially in the h...

School funding is about to drop off a fiscal cliff. Costs will stay the same. What then?

#AAIHS2027 The African American Intellectual History Society’s Twelfth Annual Conference March 5-6, 2027 Boston, MA Conference Theme: Black Worldmaking Call for Papers Submission Deadline: September 3...

A conversation with Tim Cain, an academic freedom expert and professor of higher education at the University of Georgia.

Utah taxpayers paid Consovoy McCarthy $1.86 million to defend the Legislature's repeal of Prop. 4's anti-gerrymandering rules, and lost at nearly every turn.