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How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World

Imaobong Umoren on the Violent History of the Colonized Caribbean

By Imaobong Umoren | October 23, 2025

Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas

Bartolomé de las Casas, Witness to the Violent Conquest of the Americas

From Greg Grandin's Cundill Prize-Shortlisted "America, América"

By Greg Grandin | September 23, 2025

Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

Our Good Season is Your Catastrophe: On Life as a Wildland Firefighter

How River Selby Found Herself Battling Wildfires

By River Selby | August 25, 2025

Bad Curls, Bad Character: <br>The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Bad Curls, Bad Character:
The Charged Meaning of Hair in 19th-Century America

Sarah Gold McBride on Race in the United States, Tresses as Culture, and the Field of “Whiskerology”

By Sarah Gold McBride | June 9, 2025

How the Cherokee Nation Used Diplomacy to Resist Subordination

How the Cherokee Nation Used Diplomacy to Resist Subordination

David Narrett Explores Native American Strategies of Self-Preservation in Colonial North America

By David Narrett | April 17, 2025

How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

How the Pilgrims Redefined What It Means to Move Across the World

Yoni Appelbaum Explores the Puritan Origins of Modern Ideas About Migration

By Yoni Appelbaum | February 19, 2025

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Colonizing Plants: How Bougainvillea Conquered the World

By Shahnaz Habib | December 6, 2023

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By Ashia Ajani | November 6, 2023

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Finds Lessons in History, From Tehran to Orange County

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | August 3, 2021

How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

How Colonization and Christianity Challenged Indigenous Maya Spirituality—and Failed

Emil’ Keme on the Popol Wuj, K’iche’ Authors, and Poetry as Resistance

By Emil’ Keme | July 12, 2021

On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

On the Origins of White Europeans’ Bigoted Fascination with Skin Color and Racial Hierarchy

Olivette Otele Considers the Historical Representation of Black People in Art and Fiction

By Olivette Otele | May 19, 2021

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

Alan Mikhail Considers the Historical Ripples of Islamophobia

By Alan Mikhail | December 17, 2020

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on the Time He Met Langston Hughes<br> (and More)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o on the Time He Met Langston Hughes
(and More)

From the The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

By The Quarantine Tapes | December 8, 2020

The Black Women Who Led the Fight for Decolonization in the French Empire

The Black Women Who Led the Fight for Decolonization in the French Empire

Annette Joseph-Gabriel Guests on Time to Eat the Dogs

By Time to Eat the Dogs | September 29, 2020

The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research

Kristen Millares Young on Learning from Makah Tradition

By Kristen Millares Young | May 4, 2020

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