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Historians alarmed as Trump seeks to rewrite US story for 250th anniversary

The problem for Trump, argued Johann Neem, a professor of US history at Western Washington University, is that the revolution was a rebellion “against tyranny and…

Lecture on Black women's civil rights activism May 8
History's Johann Neem to present at the upcoming AHA conference in NYC
Inside Emily Lampert's journey from WWU undergrad to doctoral candidate
Boston researchers have compiled what may be the country’s first city-commissioned database of enslaved people

Jared Ross Hardesty, an associate history professor at Western Washington University who’s written about slavery in Boston, said the records can help decipher details of enslaved people’s everyday lives, and tell of the…

Peter Faneuil: Boston benefactor and slave trader

“Boston is built on the business of slavery, whether that’s slave trading or trading with the slave economies in the Caribbean,” added Jared Ross Hardesty, a history professor at Western Washington University.

Meet Max Stone, Western's new student trustee
The Beloved, Besieged Humanities Classroom: Education reformers have killed the joy of learning. Let’s recapture it

These are tough times for humanities professors. Flip through The Chronicle and the disillusionment jumps off the page. Post-pandemic students are disengaged. Colleges are …

'Community' the central theme to visiting Fulbright Scholar's time at Western
Professors Turn to ChatGPT to Teach Students a Lesson

Last month a professor at Weber State University in Utah asked a new artificial-intelligence chatbot to write a tweet in his voice.

Within a few minutes the application, called ChatGPT, had spit out a dozen messages that captured Alex Lawrence’s tone and personality. His first reaction…

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