This article traces Laura Meneses’s anticolonial activism in defense of Puerto Rico’s independence through her shifting citizenship and hemispheric residences. Born a Peruvian citizen in 1894, Meneses...

Lisa G. Materson's Radical Solidarity is a fascinating history of the twentieth-century anticolonial activist Ruth Reynolds and the larger Puerto Rican ind

Radical Solidarity tells the riveting story of Ruth Reynolds (1916-89), a white pacifist from South Dakota who became a stalwart ally of…

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As a professor of history and UC Davis associate dean for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor teaches and coaches them through both common challenges, like how to conn...

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Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico’s Independence. By Lisa G. Materson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 2024. Pp. 286. $29.95 cloth.

Ruth Reynolds, born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1916 to a strict Methodist family, may have seemed an unlikely ally to the cause of Puerto Rican independe…

Ruth Reynolds, born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1916 to a strict Methodist family, may have seemed an unlikely ally to the cause of Puerto Rican independe…

My guest today is Dr. Martha S. Jones , the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor, professor of history, and a professor at the SNF Agora Institute at the …

Amelia Jenks Bloomer was many things: writer and publisher, public speaker, temperance reformer, advocate for women’s rights and dress reform, and adoptive mother. …

Historian Lisa Materson’s new book, Radical Solidarity: Ruth Reynolds, Political Allyship, and the Battle for Puerto Rico's Independence (UNC Press, 2024), tells the story of an unlikely activist and ...

A book like Spiritual Criminals has the potential to offer a significant contribution to U.S. Catholics' understanding of our history and provide inspiration for political activism today.

Seven faculty and staff members from UC Davis are being recognized for their outstanding global engagement work with two key awards: the Chancellor’s Award for International Engagement and the Excelle...

As the first university press in the South, UNC Press pioneered in tackling issues of the day through the honest, and sometimes gritty, lens of reality, in order to challenge the status quo in a histo...