In the Abusable Past’s latest installment of “What We’re Reading,” we invited Javier Arbona-Homar and Emily Mitchell-Eaton to discuss their recently released books. Taken together, Arbona-Homar’s Explosivity: Following What Remains(University of…
By A. Naomi Paik Golnar Nikpour’s striking new book, The Incarcerated Modern: Prisons and Public Life in Iran (Stanford University Press, 2024), traces the emergence, expansion, and…
https://youtu.be/43cK1FLRStc Aaron Lecklider teaches American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and…
By Marisol LeBrón In The Lettered Barriada: Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021), Jorell Meléndez-Badillo details…
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Dr.
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Dr. Elliott H. Powell (Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in Liberal Arts and Associate Professor…
The execution of Peter Smith in Marshall, N.C., 1905.
Smith was allowed to make a public statement before being hanged out of sight of the crowd. By Rebekah Aycock In Lethal State: A History of the Death Penalty in North Carolina, Seth Kotch tells the history of the death penalty in…
In the Abusable Past's latest installment of "What We're Reading," Durba Mitra (Assistant Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard) talks with…
Growing Barn// Photograph copyright and by courtesy of Sean Sprague. All rights reserved. A Conversation between Alex Blanchette and Gabriel N. Rosenberg All photographs copyright and by courtesy of Sean Sprague. All rights reserved. Alex Blanchette is an associate…
“Stop Police Killings,” CAPA Papers, Southern California Library From 2015 to 2018, historians of policing Max Felker-Kantor and Simon Balto lived within a mile of each other in Indianapolis. At the time, both…