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.
"Our Father, the President"
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.
BECOMING A YOUNG HISTORIAN
"My experience with the study of history at Dartmouth has meant the world to me and will certainly shape the trajectory of my life." Read full story by Anmol Ghavri '18 here.
Behind the Phoenix Program
"In late December 1967, the government of South Vietnam announced a reorganization of its war effort against the country's Communist insurgency," writes Ed Miller in USA Today Op-Ed.
Vietnam War perspective: the unreconciled conflict
"On a Saturday morning last January, I witnessed a remarkable reunion of two military veterans," Edward Miller writes in an Op-Ed piece in USA Today.
RABIG RECEIVES THE RICHARD P. MCCORMICK PRIZE
"Julia Rabig's The Fixers: Devolution, Development & Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990 (The University of Chicago Press, 2016), goes far beyond most works written to date on Newark in terms of breadth, focus, sources, and analysis," writes the prize committee.
Rufus Phillips, Vietnam Vet, lecturing in History 26
Rufus Phillips is a former CIA operative and USAID official who worked on South Vietnam's "Strategic Hamlet" program during the Vietnam War.
THE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION TO SLAVERY'S METROPOLIS
Another award for Rashauna Johnson's Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions.
Voekel's Freedom University Georgia receives MIT award
Freedom University Georgia, co-founded by Dartmouth Associate Professor of History Pamela Voekel, is one of four academic projects to receive the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab's Disobedience Award.
SLAVERY'S METROPOLIS, a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Professor Rashauna Johnson's new book Slavery's Metropolis (Cambridge, 2016) has been named a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African American experience.