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Legal scholar: Justices vie for ‘historical memory’ of school desegregation...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2007 opinion tossing out a Seattle school desegregation plan wasn’t just about deciding a matter of law, Harvard legal scholar Mark Tushnet told an Indiana University audience...
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Historians’ group backs right to embargo dissertations
The Organization of American Historians has called for allowing new doctoral degree holders to decide whether to embargo their dissertations, taking a stand on an issue that has divided academics over...
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IU panel to discuss Ukraine crisis
Indiana University students, faculty and staff and other members of the Bloomington community can learn about the Ukraine crisis Tuesday night, March 11, from experts on Ukraine, Russia and Eastern...
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1960s Chicago activists to visit IU Bloomington for panel discussion Friday
They were the original Rainbow Coalition — community activists who joined together to fight racism, start social-service programs and take on the entrenched Democratic Party machine in 1960s Chicago....
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Organization of American Historians board member awarded Pulitzer Prize
The Indiana University-affiliated Organization of American Historians was celebrating this week with the news that a member of its executive board was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for history. Alan...
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Former Organization of American Historians presidents receive National...
Three former presidents of the Indiana University-affiliated Organization of American Historians were among the National Humanities Medal recipients honored Monday by President Barack Obama. In a White...
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IU conference to explore history behind Sunni-Shia conflict
Five hundred years have passed since the Ottomans defeated the Safavids of Persia in the Battle of Chaldiran, but the clash of the two empires continues to offer lessons for understanding Islamic...
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IU history workshop to examine military labor
We’re not used to thinking of soldiers as workers. But, of course, they do some of the hardest and most dangerous work imaginable. They have bosses, and they get paid. That sounds like they are...
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IU, Watergate and the Clinton impeachment
People associate college campuses in the 1960s with New Left politics and countercultural lifestyles. There was quite a bit of that, but IU Bloomington in that era was also an influential incubator of...
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Norway’s Utøya tragedy: Historian to discuss balance between memory and new life
The bombing of Norway’s Government Center and the murder of 69 young people at a Labor Youth League camp in July 2011 shook Norwegian society to its core. Then came a new challenge: How to memorialize...
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NEH grants to support IU historians’ book projects
Indiana University Bloomington historians Kaya Sahin and Ellen Wu can dive into new research projects in 2015 thanks to fellowships awarded last month by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each...
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IU Bloomington panel to discuss the politics of teaching history
Colorado high school students walk out of class and carry petitions objecting to what they say are attempts to censor the curriculum for Advanced Placement U.S. history courses. Arizona education...
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Special issue of history journal examines oil, a ‘decidedly valuable and...
You don’t have to look further than the news to know that oil is a big deal to Americans. Spikes in gas prices, controversy about the XL Pipeline, instability in the Middle East and its impact on oil...
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Emancipation Proclamation: Indiana majority didn’t celebrate in 1862
As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, it’s instructive to recall that President Lincoln’s order freeing the slaves wasn’t greeted with universal applause – even in the...
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Lugar still serving as his time in Senate winds down
Richard Lugar’s name won’t be on the Indiana election ballot this fall, but he’s still serving his state, wrapping up a distinguished, 36-year tenure in the U.S. Senate. A long-time friend of Indiana...
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IU legal historian: Income tax created modern fiscal state
As we struggle to file our 2012 tax returns on time, let’s pause for a moment and wish a happy 100th birthday to … the income tax. Actually the tax could claim several birthdays. But as IU Maurer...
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Marking 50 years since ‘Letter from a Birmingham Jail’
Fifty years ago this week, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sat in an Alabama jail cell and wrote what was destined to become a defining document of the American civil rights movement – and the global...
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IU historians: Tragedy of JFK’s death probably didn’t change course of history
What if John F. Kennedy had lived? Would American history have been different? The question has been getting the full treatment this week as news media mark the 50th anniversary of JFK’s assassination....
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Squirrels and the poor, deserving or not
It’s impossible to read Etienne Benson’s Journal of American History article about the urbanization of the eastern gray squirrel without reflecting on our own attitudes about charity and those who rely...
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China’s rise and Tiger Moms: today’s ‘Yellow Peril’?
Is the “Yellow Peril” fear that gripped America in the late 1800s making a comeback? Indiana University historian Ellen Wu asks that provocative question in a recent essay for History News Network. Wu...
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Historians Bourke, Grayzel to speak for World War I commemoration
IU Bloomington’s year-long commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of World War I enters the home stretch this week with back-to-back lectures by historians Joanna Bourke and Susan Grayzel. The...
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Thursday panel discussions at IU Bloomington feature leading figures on race...
Khalil G. Muhammad and Jelani Cobb are two of the best contemporary writers on the topic of race in America, period. And by coincidence, both will be at IU Bloomington this Thursday — for two separate...
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IU panel opens dialogue on racism in America
Guest post courtesy of IU Newsroom intern Annie Brackemyre Three years after the death of Trayvon Martin, which sparked the Black Lives Matter movement — and just three weeks after the U.S. Justice...
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Khalil Muhammad: Bloomington to Harlem
Khalil Muhammad moved four years ago from living the quiet life of a Bloomington academic to being director of New York’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, one of the world’s leading...
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Lilly Library exhibit captures sadness of Lincoln’s death, links president...
Abraham Lincoln died 150 years ago today. It’s hard to imagine what a shock the president’s assassination must have been to a young nation exhausted from a Civil War that killed more than 600,000...
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Historian: Church attack makes for a somber Juneteenth
Today is Juneteenth, an important African-American celebration that marks the occasion 150 years ago today when word reached Galveston, Texas, that the Civil War was over and slaves were free. But this...
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Civil rights legend John Lewis: ‘We can change things’
John Lewis hopes his autobiographical graphic novel “March” will inspire a generation of young people to transform society just as he and other civil rights activists did 50 years ago. “I hope they...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: No ‘5-day plan’ for justice
The vulnerability of African-Americans to violence and poverty isn’t an accident but an intended result of policy, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates told an Indiana University audience today. And behind policy...
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Labor historian to discuss Bloomington labor history, ‘just wages’
Post by IU Newsroom intern Annie Brackemyre Outsourcing an American call center to India or a factory to China hardly feels like news today. Often outsourcing is talked about as a uniquely modern facet...
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Scholar to discuss Holocaust and 9/11 memorials
James E. Young, an internationally known scholar of Holocaust studies and the design and role of memorials, will present a free public lecture Saturday at Indiana University Bloomington. Young,...
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