USM History Dept
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University of Southern Mississippi History Department
Mere outrage at colonialism's victims can quickly turn reactionary if it resists the self-emancipation of the oppressed. As Aimé Césaire teaches us, a culture can only choose its future freely “when the society in which it finds expression is free.”christiansocialism.com/anticolonialis…
"Teaching the Middle Ages in the modern southern United States allows me to facilitate conversations with both students and the wider public that ask them to reexamine their ideas about the past," writes @CLuckhardt in #AHAPerspectives. #MedievalTwitter historians.org/publications-a…
Help us welcome @PetersonRae as Senior Assistant Editor! She began working for CWRGM as lead Grad. Student Researcher in June 2020 and has served as Asst. Editor since Jan. 2021. As Sr. Asst. Ed., a @NHPRC funded position, she is instrumental to the project's admin. and design.
From @josephwpeterson via @madebyhistory: What Tucker Carlson’s trip to Hungary reveals about the state of our politics wapo.st/3yEHvX5
“The American right’s ‘love affair’ with Orbán reflects its own troubling creep toward authoritarianism and ethno-nationalism.” @josephwpeterson washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
Beyond the Classroom: As an intern at Vicksburg National Military Park, USM History major Cody Turnbaugh researched the personal lives of the sailors who served aboard the U.S.S. Cairo, a Union ironclad that was sunk during the American Civil War’s Vicksburg Campaign of 1862-63.
