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In the News Faculty Political Science

NPR: 'A long time coming': Given DHS warning, a look at U.S. domestic extremism threats, Prof. Robert Pape discusses research on the economic and political backgrounds of the Capitol Hill rioters

In the News Faculty Political Science

The Atlantic: The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists, Prof. Robert Pape and senior research assoc. Keven Ruby, both of CPOST , co-author report on what the background of the Capitol Hill rioters tells us about American Extremism

In the News Faculty History

Block Club Chicago: 40 pieces of public art in Chicago flagged as potentially problematic by review panel, Assoc. Prof. Adam Green notes the necessity of reckoning with history as Americans

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NYT: Amazon’s cynical, anti-union attack on mail voting, In op-ed, Assoc. Prof. Amy Dru Stanley criticizes Amazon’s anti-unionization efforts

Announcements History Faculty

Tetsuo Najita, eminent scholar of Japan’s early modern and modern intellectual history, 1936-2021

Professor Emeritus Tetsuo Najita, whose work as an historian sought to recoup and to explore the agency of ordinary people, commoner-intellectuals...

In the News Faculty Political Science

Financial Times: Biden’s first week: flurry of executive orders and frustrations of governing, Prof. William Howell discusses the challenges Pres. Biden will face in his first year in office

In the News Faculty Election2020

The Hill: How Joe Biden can achieve unity, In op-ed, Prof. Roger Myerson stresses that Pres. Biden must prioritize outreach to red states

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The Boston Globe: In honor of Black History Month, a selection of events, Prof. Cathy Cohen to speak at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute in commemoration of Black History Month

In the News Faculty Political Science

Politico: What China’s vax trolling adds up to, Article references Prof. Dali Yang's analysis of Chinese attitudes toward American-developed vaccines

In the News Political Science

Washington Post: Historians say Trump's 1776 report is inaccurate and biased. So why are high schools teaching history this way anyway? Postdoc. Matthew Nelsen examines the way history is taught in US schools and its consequences