Udi Greenberg writes about the historical precedent to the detention camps in Texas.Read more about The Logic of Militant Democracy: From domestic concentration camps to the war on terror
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. Read more about "Our Father, the President"
"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. Read more about BECOMING A YOUNG HISTORIAN
“The sons of blue-collar families, African American, Hispanic, and Native American young men, were disproportionately out in the jungles of Vietnam,” writes President Emeritus James Wright in his new book, Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War.
However, he tells the Hoover Institution’s Peter Robinson ’79, a former Dartmouth trustee, in a Dec. 21 video interview, “while this very much is a war that is predominantly, disproportionately blue collar, there were plenty of college dropouts, there were plenty of college graduates who were out in the front lines, and they weren’t only officers.” Full interview here.
"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. Read more about Behind the Phoenix Program
"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. Read more about Vietnam War perspective: the unreconciled conflict
"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. Read more about RABIG RECEIVES THE RICHARD P. MCCORMICK PRIZE
Rufus Phillips is a former CIA operative and USAID official who worked on South Vietnam's "Strategic Hamlet" program during the Vietnam War. Read more about Rufus Phillips, Vietnam Vet, lecturing in History 26
Another award for Rashauna Johnson's Slavery's Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions<. Read more about THE URBAN HISTORY ASSOCIATION AWARDS HONORABLE MENTION TO SLAVERY'S METROPOLIS
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. Read more about Voekel's Freedom University Georgia receives MIT award
