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The Chinese Must Go: A History of Anti-Asian Violence in the United States” Beth Lew-Williams, Associate Professor of History, Princeton University Wednesday 7 April 2021, 4:30 pm The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885 Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, more than 165 communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese migrants. Beth Lew-Williams will discuss this unprecedented outbreak, place it within the broader history of anti-Asian violence, and reflect on the implications for the present day. As we confront a new surge of anti-Asian hate crimes amid the pandemic, how should history help to inform our responses? ....
MEA Restrictions on Online Events Reflect New Level of Paranoia on the Part of Indian State Academics based in India will be under more pressure. Academics based outside India will be discouraged from working on India, as they are today from working on Iran, or other countries which use such intimidation , says UCLA historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Representative image of a virtual conference on an online platform. Photo: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash, (CC BY-SA) Rights13/Feb/2021 New Delhi: Revised official guidelines which state that Indiaâs publicly-funded universities, professors and administrators need prior approval from the Ministry of External Affairs if they want to hold online international conferences or seminars on matter relating to the security of the Indian state or issues which are âclearly related to Indiaâs internal mattersâ, have drawn flak from leading academics and organisations in the United States. ....
True West Magazine The late author-screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook, editor Stuart Rosebrook, Paul Andrew Hutton and True West’s Bob Boze Bell share a grand moment at the joint Arizona-New Mexico History Convention in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 2017, where Stuart had just moderated a panel discussion by Hutton and Bell on one of their research subjects, Mickey Free. – Photo by Dorothy Rosebrook, Courtesy Paul Andrew Hutton – Do you remember the first time you read Paul Andrew Hutton? He immediately captured my interest and imagination with his double-barreled literary prose and academic virtuosity in the pages of his first book, Phil Sheridan and His Army (University of Nebraska Press, 1986; new edition, University of Oklahoma Press, 1999). Whether or not you were knowledgeable about General Sheridan before you read Hutton’s award-winning biography, this book hooked you and made you eager to read more history written and interpreted by Hutton. He was an academic his ....