The prize is for his article "Protestants, Decolonization, and European Integration, 1885-1961" (The Journal of Modern History 89, no. 2, June 2017).
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Historian Colin Calloway's book The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation has been named a 2018 National Book Awards finalist in nonfiction, along with four other works in the running for one of the most coveted literary prizes in America.
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Annelise Orleck shares two interviews she has just completed on the McDonalds workers' strike against sexual harassment.
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Udi Greenberg writes about the historical precedent to the detention camps in Texas. Despite its best efforts, the Trump Administration has sparked an intense interest in American history. The President's assault on equality is so breathtaking that one of the few ways to make sense of it is to view it as product of long and well-established traditions. Many Americans have therefore reacted to the administration's actions with a renewed look at the darker sides of their country's past.
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Colin Calloway's new book, THE INDIAN WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON: THE FIRST PRESIDENT AND FIRST AMERICANS, AND THE BIRTH OF THE NATION (Oxford,2018), is reviewed by Susan Dunn for The New York Review of Books.
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