GIS & History: What can historians do with GIS?

Before I transferred to a Geography PhD program, I did not give much thought to GIS. I used it in …

4 Little Girls

Today marks 50 years since the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th St. Baptist Church and the murder of the 4 girls …

I am not a Patriot (or a Nationalist)

“I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the …

No, You May Not Touch My Hair: Or Why Antonia Opiah’s Public Art Exhibit Misses the Mark

Antonia Opiah’s “You Can Touch My Hair” public art exhibit features Black women in Union Square, New York City, holding …

dear one, what have you lost?

“Obruni (Twi word for “white foreigner”)* forced me to acknowledge that I didn’t belong anyplace. The domain of the stranger is …

Akátá- or how I realized that Afrocentrism was not for me

By no means am I a ‘natural’ citizen here in the US. I have the trappings of belonging- state-issued IDs, …

Questioning Epochal Interpretations of History: Thoughts

“Historical analysis can point to moments of uncertainty-when stabilizing institutions were weakened and expectations of change heightened-and to moments of …