Category: Civil Rights

Genocide by Berel Lang: A Summary

Today, Berel Lang—author of Genocide and Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the State University of New York, Albany—offers a brief summary of his exciting, provocative book. A more adventurous title for… READ MORE

Whose Lives Matter?

Today we have a riveting and topical guest post from Michael W. Flamm, professor of history at Ohio Wesleyan University and author of In the Heat of the Summer: The… READ MORE

Black Republicans Then and Now

Today, we have an exciting and timely guest blog post from Joshua D. Farrington, who teaches history and African American Studies at the University of Kentucky and Eastern Kentucky University. Farrington is… READ MORE

Hot Off Penn Press: Summer reading

May and June have seen an array of new Penn Press titles on topics ranging from the history of workplace feminism to Islamic architecture and beyond—just in time for summer!… READ MORE

The Nature of Workplace Rights

Katherine Turk, author of Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace, joins us for a guest post today. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision,… READ MORE