European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.
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In 1951, the French Explorer Jean Malaurie witnessed the building of a US military base in Greenland in near total secrecy, which marked an irreversible turning point for Inuit societies.
Po'pay, a Tewa religious leader, led the Pueblo Revolt, the most successful Indigenous rebellion in what’s now the United States.
The newly announced exhibit is surprising but long overdue, and represents an act of institutional accountability.
We tend to view private property as a sacrosanct, never-changing principle. But property rights are legal constructs — never absolute and always evolving.
The violence that overwhelmed Sweida in July 2025 reflects challenges under the transitional government, but also age-old tensions over Druze autonomy.
Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the early modern world.
The famed Michelin Red Guide is coming to Philadelphia, and inspectors are scouting local restaurants to find some worthy of Michelin awards.
Scholars are working to piece together information about Indigenous children who attended a residential school in Brantford and Inuit patients taken to a sanatorium in Hamilton, Ontario.
Marvel movies like ‘Black Panther’ and ‘Infinity War’ are the starting point for this ethics seminar.
Many US states and cities have renamed Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day. But wrestling over the explorer’s legacy has a longer – and even more fraught – history in Latin America.
The Requerimiento, a 16th-century document, sheds light on the deeper ideas and laws that the Spanish used to take over the New World.
This playlist of podcast episodes invites listeners to engage in learning and unlearning; to acknowledge the tragic legacies of residential schools and to move beyond a single day of remembrance.
Alberta’s new social studies curriculum misses the mark on child development, lacks adequate opportunities for critical thinking and neglects teaching about colonization.
The destructive force that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has unleashed in Gaza is rooted in a century-old ideology that says overwhelming power is how Israel should deal with Palestinians.
Owls, once seen as harbingers of death, are now celebrated in popular literature and culture in North America and Britain.
Conversion was often a violent affair, but that doesn’t mean it was 100% successful. Colonial Latin America was home to many different spiritual traditions from Indigenous, African and Asian cultures.
Fewer than a quarter of once-colonized countries make official government-to-government requests for an apology or reparations.
A scholar of Native American and Indigenous rhetorics writes about the harm done to Native American nations through colonization and what can be done to reduce it.
Over the past decades, many Chicana artists have used Guadalupe to emphasize issues of justice around immigration.
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Rohrbaugh Family Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice, University of Regina
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Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Assistant Professor, Chair in Indigenous Environmental Science, School of Environmental Studies, University of Guelph
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Associate Professor of Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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