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The specter of Barry Goldwater hangs over the recent history of moderation. “Extremism in defense of liberty,” he proclaimed in his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the 1964 Republican National Convention, “is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” As Indiana University Professor of Political Science Aurelian Craiutu noted in introducing his […]

Numbers vs. historical narrative took center stage in the opening remarks for the October 2nd “Policing & Criminal Justice Reform” panel delivered by Manhattan Institute Deputy Director of Legal Policy Rafael Mangual and University of Missouri Ruth L. Hulston Professor of Law S. David Mitchell. On the empirical side, when asked about the most important […]

We regret to announce that as a result of the pandemic, this spring’s Global History at Oxford class and study abroad have been cancelled. We look forward to offering the class in Spring 2022. In the meantime, those who are recent graduates or graduating seniors might be interested in our one-year M.A. in Atlantic History […]

The obstacles suffragists faced in the “continuous, seemingly endless chain of activity” that led up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment were, University of South Carolina Distinguished Professor Emerita Marjorie J. Spruill described, to some extent built into the United States’ founding history. On one hand, with the principle of coverture erasing married women’s […]

To her friend Mary Bartlett’s tongue-in-cheek question about the gender of a comet soaring above Charleston in 1742, Eliza Lucas Pinckney responded, “If it is any mortal transformed in this glorious luminary, why not a woman?” If this was an audacious thing to ask in the mid-18th century colonies, Saint Louis University Professor and Bannon […]

Previewing his chapter for the Kinder Institute and MU Press’ forthcoming edited volume examining the Missouri Crisis at its bicentennial, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor of History Richard Newman described his contribution to the book as one that would detail the vital role that African Americans played in shaping the meaning and historical memory of […]