DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

History in the News

2020-21

• Kate Masur's Until Justice Be Done (2021) is the subject of a symposium:  https://balkin.blogspot.com/2021/05/balkinization-symposium-on-kate-masur.html
• Ji-Yeon Yuh is honored in this Daily Northwestern  tribute:  https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/04/08/opinion/huang-an-ode-to-professor-yuh/
• Kate Masur's op-ed in the LA Times appeared earlier this month:  https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-04-06/civil-rights-1866-act-black-laws-northern-states.  Her book, Until Justice Be Done, just had its second (and again really enthusiastic) review in The New York Times.  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/16/books/review/kate-masur-until-justice-be-done.html.  And a marvelous review in the Washington Post -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/americas-forgotten-civil-rights-movement/2021/04/22/afeda110-8f16-11eb-9423-04079921c915_story.html
• Jonathon Glassman's article, "Toward a Comparative History of Racial Thought in Africa:  Historicism, Barbarism, Autochthony," is out in Comparative Studies in Society and History. 
• Kate Masur's March 2021 book, Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction, garnered NYT and WSJ reviews—https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/17/books/review-until-justice-be-done-kate-masur.html and https://www.wsj.com/articles/until-justice-be-done-review-free-but-not-free-11616359082
• Dyan Elliott's new book, The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy (2020), was reviewed in the National Catholic Reporter as "nothing short of remarkable, stunning and most importantly, authentic."  New book examines clergy sexual abuse — in the wide lens of history | National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org).