Ways of War: Toward a Global Military History My research, supported by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, focused on an emerging field of study: global military history, resulting in the publication of a book, The Gunpowder Age (Princeton University Press,…
“The Long History of Anti-Asian Violence in the US”: Dr. Beth Lew-Williams Dr. Beth Lew-Williams Beth Lew-Williams is a historian of race and migration in the United States, specializing in Asian American history. Her book, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and…
A Military History of East Africa in the Nineteenth Century The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation made possible archival research in the U.K., France, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, and field research in Uganda, to collect data for the first macrocosmic history…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Emerging Scholars …Ian Johnson (History, Ohio State University). The Faustian Pact: Secret Soviet-German Military Cooperation in the Interwar Period Victor Louzon (History, Yale University). The 1947 Taiwanese Rebellion: Last Battle of the…
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholars …Processes Matter? Jeffrey Rossman (History, University of Virginia). Stalin’s Great Terror: A Documentary History of Soviet Perpetrators Randolph Roth (History, Ohio State University). Child Murder in America Jennifer Sessions (History,…
Translations of Antisemitism: The History of Jews and Violence in Indonesia …rhetoric is borrowed from Middle Eastern anti-Zionist propaganda. This viewpoint is limited. In my research I analyze the history and role of the Jewish community during the period of Dutch…
Toward a Transnational History of the Origins of World War I This project examines the outbreak of war in 1914 from a transnational perspective. Rather than see Europe in this era as a set of homogenous and hermetically sealed nation-states, it…
What Do Historians Have to Say About Violence? …is Associate Professor of History and Criminology at the University of Florida. Thomas W. Gallant is Associate Professor of History at the University of Florida. Both are HFG grantees. Notes…
‘Stories about the Way the Nation Is Organized Are Dividing Us’: A Conversation with Richard Slotkin …to sugarcoat that history, but I do insist that it was never all one way. There were always possibilities in that history for a different turn of events. The point…
“We Have a Lot of Damage to Undo”: A Conversation with Jeremy Travis …with that history. So we’re tearing down statues of Confederate generals. We’re thinking deeply, thanks to Bryan Stevenson, about the history of lynching. Let’s not forget that the Tulsa race…
