[B]oth the holiday’s development and epidemiological reasons for its present-day decline are rooted in a settler colonial project centered on the pursuit of wealth and ecological exploitation
WHAT THANKSGIVING AND THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC SHARE
history
REVIEW: BLACK RADICAL AUTHOR KERRI K. GREENIDGE
A new biography of Boston anti-racist leader William Monroe Trotter
INTERVIEW: “LOST WONDERLAND” AUTHOR STEPHEN R. WILK
"Wonderland was, in effect, victimized by the smaller venues on Revere Beach. For some odd quirk of human psychology, people didn’t want to walk the extra distance."
NO LEGAL JUSTICE WITHOUT ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Bridging the chasm between law enforcement and justice, part 4
AGE OF ILLUSIONS: BACEVICH LOOKS AT AMERICA’S LOST TIME
In general, though, the noted historian's depiction of the '90s and '00s as an age of fraudulent promises and wasted opportunities rings true.
THE HISTORICAL PURPOSE OF POLICING
Bridging the chasm between law enforcement and justice, Part 3
INTERVIEW: SUREN MOODLIAR ON A PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO GREATER BOSTON
A new book from University of California Press
IN ATTUCKS COMMEMORATION, NATIVE AMERICANS NOTE INJUSTICE THEN AND NOW
“There’s a lot of money being thrown at the Harbor Islands now—they want to put hotels there and all kinds of things, but there were burials all over there, so that’s a battle we’re going to have.”
IN DEFENSE OF TELLING FAMILY MEMBERS THAT THEY AREN’T QUALIFIED TO ARGUE WITH YOU ABOUT POLITICS
A few weeks ago, I went there. I told family members who reside politically south of America’s metaphorical Mason-Dixon line that they were unqualified to wrestle with me on the subject of impeachment.
FUNDAMENTAL CIVICS: HOW A BOSTON TEEN CHANGED THE WAY TEACHERS APPROACH IMMIGRATION HISTORY
“Our job as educators is to learn about our students and where they come from. We create lessons that will interest them, lessons about their life experiences."
