How can a wounded land become a source of healing, rejuvenation and renewal?  How can a former death strip become a lifeline connecting a painful past to the promise of the future?  Bates College Environmental Studies Professor Sonja Pieck explains how this is precisely...

During the Great Depression the capitalist system in the United States neared the point of collapse.  The stock market plunged to its lowest point in the century, the banking system was at risk of failing, and unemployment peaked at a quarter of the workforce. ...

Historian Georgiy Kasianov has authored, co-authored, and co-edited over twenty books on his native country of Ukraine.  I had the opportunity to speak with him in February 2024 about his book Memory Crash: The Politics of History in and around Ukraine 1980s-2010s.  Georgiy’s interest...

How can we work toward a greater degree of freedom and justice for all if our memories of the past are fundamentally different?  How can we pursue the general welfare and wellbeing of the people without common reference points?  This is the dilemma raised...

Under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. the 1960s civil rights movement achieved far reaching legal and political changes.  University of Southern California sociologist Hajar Yazdiha points out that not surprisingly a myriad of other disenfranchised and marginalized groups looked to the example...

Despite the removal of scores of prominent monuments to the Confederacy the vast majority remain firmly in place.  For communities to make informed decisions about the future of these monuments they need to have a clear understanding of their past.  It was with this...