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Manisha Sinha in New York Times article “Are Trump’s Actions Unprecedented? We Asked Historians (Again).”
In an article categorizing various actions by President Trump by “no clear precedent”, “has happened, but under different circumstances”, and “not uncommon”, Professor Sinha weighed in on his use of the military to attack and kill suspected drug smugglers, and his reduction of United Nations funding. Full article here: Are Trump’s Actions Unprecedented? We […]
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NCPH and NPS “WWII and the Home Front” webinar to include UConn’s Clarissa Ceglio on January 23rd
The online webinar series presented by the National Council on Public History and National Park Service is called “World War II and the Home Front” and will start January 22nd and end January 30th. Professor Ceglio is an Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at UConn and will present a talk that will include tips for […]
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The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000
Bradley Simpson, Author Oxford University Press, 2025 In The First Right, Brad Simpson narrates the global history of the idea of self-determination in international politics from the 1940s through the end of the twentieth century. He argues that there was no one version of self-determination, but a century-long contest between contending visions of sovereignty and rights. He shows that […]
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The First Right: Self-Determination and the Transformation of International Order, 1941-2000
Bradley Simpson, Author Oxford University Press, 2025 In The First Right, Brad Simpson narrates the global history of the idea of self-determination in international politics from the 1940s through the end of the twentieth century. He argues that there was no one version of self-determination, but a century-long contest between contending visions of sovereignty and rights. He shows that […]
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The First Fascist
Sergio Luzzatto Harvard University Press, 2026 (US); Penguin Books, 2026 (UK) A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call “fascism.”
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An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The chapters in this volume examine the many and various ways that Gaelic Ireland was integrated into the broader, European world, focusing on literature and learning; real-world politics, economics, and travel; and questions of identity.
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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Princeton University Press, 2025
Manisha Sinha wrote the forward of a new edition of Sylvia Frey’s classic Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age published by Princeton University Press in July 2025.
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