July 4, 2024
This 248th Independence Day, also known as Fourth of July, marks the historic day American colonists declared their freedom from Great Britain and adopted the Declaration of Independence. Our Independence… READ MORE
March 1, 2024
In 1980, the National Women’s History Project successfully gained national recognition for Women’s History Week, issued by President Jimmy Carter. Women’s History Month, later established by Congress in 1987, commemorates… READ MORE
February 29, 2024
Jordan Abel— “Decolonization is not a metaphor.”1Tuck & Yang One of the most difficult things I’ve had to do in my life is talk about where I come from. As… READ MORE
November 16, 2023
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History has been named the winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction. Finalists celebrated at the 74th… READ MORE
May 2, 2023
Ned Blackhawk, author of The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, talks with us about the challenges of being a historian today, the resiliency of… READ MORE
October 10, 2022
A selection of Yale University Press titles related to Indigenous resistance, literature, and history. Many titles in this reading list are from The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians… READ MORE
January 7, 2020
Pekka Hämäläinen— The histories of the Lakota people and the United States are intimately and violently linked. The Lakotas almost always seem to be there when American history turns and… READ MORE
May 23, 2017
Benjamin Madley— As the sun rose on July 7, 1846, four U.S. warships rode at anchor in Monterey Bay. Ashore, the Mexican tricolor cracked over the adobe walls and red-tiled… READ MORE
November 10, 2016
Coll Thrush— London might seem like a strange place to find Indigenous history. When most people think of Indigenous history, they think of traditional homelands, reservations, and perhaps urban communities…. READ MORE
Abolitionism and Environmental Justice: Lessons from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century
