STATUES, SURREALISM AND PUBLIC SPACE
Where would you expect to see a statue? Perhaps in a public square, or outside a government building? And ...
Jehan Creton’s ‘Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre’
Jehan Creton’s Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre is an important source for the history of the turn ...
Jehan Creton’s ‘Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre’
After 200 years the RHS is publishing a modern scholarly edition of Jehan Creton’s Prinse et mort du roy Richart ...
Commemorate International Workers’ Day and Labor Day – Zinn Education Project
By Ricardo Levins Morales. Click image to order poster. Do not reprint without permission of artist. This International Workers’ Day — ...
How a Universal Basic Research Income Could Facilitate Historical Research
The waiting, as Tom Petty stated, is the hardest part. I am currently awaiting the result of a major ...
Pete Carroll Presents Jesse Hagopian the Hero of the Deep Award – Zinn Education Project
At the Seattle Kraken hockey game on April 22, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll announced the Hero of the Deep award ...
Teach Truth Day of Action June 10 – Zinn Education Project
Action Plan Overview | Action Plan DetailsCoordinators and Co-Sponsors | Workshops and More Events It’s time to take action. . . ...
Textbook Critique on Reconstruction – Zinn Education Project
“One cannot study Reconstruction without first frankly facing the facts of universal lying,” explained scholar W. E. B. Du Bois ...
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to WWII – Zinn Education Project
On Monday, May 8, 2023, author Howard W. French will discuss his most recent non-fiction book, titled Born in Blackness: Africa, ...
Anti-communism in Britain during the early Cold War: A Very British Witch Hunt
The Labour Party’s surprise and decisive victory in the 1945 General Election handed the new prime minister, Clement Attlee, ...
Linda Villarosa on Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation – Zinn Education Project
On Monday, April 24, 2023, author Linda Villarosa will discuss her new book, Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of ...
Teach the Black Freedom Struggle Online Classes – Zinn Education Project
This is such a wonderful series — content-wise and soul-feeding. This is one of the best professional developments I have ...
Right-Wing Campaign to Block Teaching for Social Justice – Zinn Education Project
The Backlash Against C.R.T. Shows That Republicans Are Losing Ground by Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times (Feb. 4, 2022) ...
Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups – Zinn Education Project
Each year the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking ...
Teaching Outside the Textbook About Rosa Parks in Kennesaw, Georgia – Zinn Education Project
In March 2023, Georgia’s Kennesaw State University Teaching for Black Lives study group and #BlackTeachersMatter hosted a “Rosa Parks: Activist, ...
Social History From the Global South: New Voices from Southern Africa. Reflections on British Academy Funded Writing Workshop, University of the Free State, South Africa.
Background to the British Academy Writing Workshop Scheme Between 13 and 15 February 2023, 15 postgraduate/early-career researchers ...
Reconstruction Workshop in Vermont – Zinn Education Project
I’ve learned more here today about Reconstructionthan in all my formal education. I came away with more knowledge about Reconstruction ...
People’s History Banned in Florida – Zinn Education Project
In the face of attempts by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to ban AP African American studies, social justice books, and ...
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction – Zinn Education Project
On March 20, 2023, historian Kidada Williams joined Prentiss Charney Fellow Jessica Rucker to discuss her latest book, I Saw ...
The Trouble with Text Mining: And why some projects take a long time, and future projects might take less time
Introduction and Context The technology seemed to be in place. Biologists and computer scientists assured me that topic ...
‘Historical Research in the Digital Age’, Part 5: ‘Digitising History from a Global Perspective; and what this tells us about access and inequality’
Since the advent of the Internet and World Wide Web in the early 1990s, historians have gained access to ...
Are you new to teaching? Eight online guides for historians beginning careers in Higher Education
In September 2022, the Royal Historical Society and History UK co-hosted a two-day online interactive workshop, ‘New to Teaching’ ...
‘Historical Research in the Digital Age’, Part 4: ‘Researching with Big Data; and how historians can work collaboratively’
Digital History is looking increasingly attractive due to the availability of digitised content, as discussed in the Parts 1 ...
‘Historical Research in the Digital Age’, Part 3: ‘Why archivists digitise, and why it matters’
Why digitise? The answers to this question might seem obvious to a historian: to make collections accessible to remote ...
Teaching the early modern Islamic World
It was my great honour to be presented, in July, with the 2022 Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching, ...
