The latest by History at Fordham's Saul Cornell: "What is the scope of the Second Amendment right to bear arms outside of the home?" slate.com/news-and-polit… via Slate

A great book to read abt this: “Feminism’s Forgotten Fight” by Kirsten Swinth, who teaches at History at Fordham: news.fordham.edu/inside-fordham…

"The Problem of Difference: Corporate Histories from the Global South" by Mircea Raianu (Univ. of Maryland). Please join us for our last talk this year from O'Connell Initiative for the Global History of Capitalism, May 4th, 5:30: fordham.zoom.us/meeting/regist… pic.x.com/jiiexqawyv

I am so excited to read, engage w/, & assign pieces of CSSAAME's new issue, 'the Africa-Soviet Modern.' Brilliant scholars such as my colleague @historyasif & others, Betty Banks, Robyn d'Avignon, Andrew Ivaska, Steffi Marung, are featured. read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/issue/… #AfricaSoviet

Panel 2) Beyond the Pale ICHS chair Steven Ellis University of Galway - History Neil Murphy Northumbria Uni Chris Maginn History at Fordham 33 Irish Conference of Historians #33ICH

Rejecting "postcolonial African archival pessimism," Nana Osei-Opare examines workers' petitions and letters of complaint, found in #Ghana's local archives, to "reclaim the voices of nonelite Africans in relation to their employers and the state." bit.ly/2PHHpMy

Asif Siddiqi is History at Fordham professor & the writer of several space books. He said it might be necessary to retire the term once hundreds if not thousands of people reach space. “Are we going to call each and every one of them astronauts?”learningenglish.voanews.com/a/who-is-an-as… via Voice of America

"The 'working class' in NYC is no longer white- it consists of immigrants from all over the globe... This to whom Eric Adams is appealing. It is a winning formula when the majority of Black New Yorkers now come from West Africa & the West Indies." - History at Fordham's Mark Naison

If you missed this conversation about images and dangerous rhetoric Getty with Fordham University History at Fordham Magda Teter, @sliptonmedieval, Ben Katchor and Blake Gopnik you can watch it now: youtu.be/TABn_ooiBTA

Rafael Zapata, Fordham’s chief diversity officer, said he was humbled to be recognized by an organization that trains social workers to serve New York’s “complex, ever-evolving, yet consistently misunderstood Latinx community.” news.fordham.edu/colleges-and-s…

In the new JAH, Nana Osei-Opare shows how #workers in postcolonial #Ghana used petitions to protest workplace abuses, corruption, and low wages — and to assert the importance of their #labor to Kwame Nkrumah's nation-building project. #laborhistory bit.ly/2PHHpMy

Maria Hinojosa 🥑 In light of the news about Haiti see a piece by my colleague Wes Alcenat History at Fordham Fordham University tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In light of the news from Haiti, read a piece by my colleague Wes Alcenat of History at Fordham Fordham University "How U.S. Economic Imperialism Underdeveloped Haiti" muckrack.com/link/ou7k5f/ho…

#HappyHeavenlyBirthday to #JamesBaldwin who was born #onthisday in 1924. The #SchomburgCenter is home to the James Baldwin Papers, which include his manuscripts, poetry, and letters. Learn more about our collection. archives.nypl.org/scm/24143?utm_…

Thank you Penguin Art Group for this lovely banner! You can preorder The Penguin Book of Dragons (forthcoming 12 October) from your local independent bookstore! Penguin Classics Penguin Books USA Penguin Random House 🐧🏠📚 Penguin Books UK

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Fordham History is currently welcoming applications for Assistant Professor in the history of modern South Asia. Application details in link: fordham.edu/info/28602/cur… #HistoryJobs #academicjobs #AcademicTwitter

Congratulations to Beth Penry who has been awarded a Franklin Research Grant from the Am Phil Society! The grant will be used to support her new research project titled “The Italian Renaissance in Diaspora: Jesuit Education and Indigenous Modernities.”

Interested in learning about medieval marriage practices and law? Check out Wolfgang Müller's new book, 'Marriage Litigation in the Western Church'! Listen to his interview with New Books Network to hear more about it: newbooksnetwork.com/marriage-litig…