Call for Papers: Zones and Lines, Water and Land: New Conversations on Borders
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann shares a call for papers for a workshop she's co-organizing.
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Geographies of Power on Land and Water: Space, People, and Borders
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann introduces her AHRC Research Network, and discusses applying for funding as an immigrant in the...
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Q&A with Coll Thrush
Today Coll Thrush speaks with The Junto about his most recent book, Indigenous London: Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire, which examines that city’s history through the experiences of Indigenous travelers—willing or otherwise—from territories that became the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
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“Daddy” Schuyler, Hamilton, and the Dakota Access Pipeline
Today at The Junto, Rachel Herrmann looks at settler colonialism in Hamilton and its relationship to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests.
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Why the Exeter Chiefs Should Rebrand Themselves
This blog post originally appeared at the Imperial and Global Forum in June. It’s reposted with slight edits here for reasons I’ll go into below. On any given weekend, you might find yourself on a train platform, surrounded by sports fans wearing “Native American” headdresses and “war paint,” and waving inflatable tomahawks.
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Q&A with Alejandra Dubcovsky
Today at The Junto, we’re featuring an interview with Alejandra Dubcovsky about her new book, Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South, which Jessica Parr reviewed yesterday. Alejandra Dubcovsky is an Assistant Professor of History at Yale (and soon an Assistant Professor of history at UC Riverside).
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Revisiting Red Jacket, alias Cow Killer
Today at the Junto, Rachel Herrmann takes a look at a story told about the Seneca orator Red...
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