Prof. Manisha Sinha was quoted in a May 25 New York Times piece, looking back at the murder of George Floyd and the 2020 movement for Black lives. Prof. Sinha is quoted alongside Ibram X. Kendi and Steven Hahn, among others, and seeks to place the events of 2020, as well as the subsequent reactionary backlash, within its long-term historical context.
Access the piece here.
Prof. Manisha Sinha will be giving a series of lectures, this April, beginning on April 8 in New Haven, CT. Check out event details below:
April 8, 2025: Bosworth Memorial Lecture in American History, Yale University, New Haven, CT: Link
April 10, 2025: Lecture Sponsored by the History Department and the McFarland Center, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA: Link
April 21, 2025: Hartman Hotz Lecture in Law and Liberal Arts, School of Law and Department of History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR: Link
On September 25, Prof. Manisha Sinha visited Washington D.C., where she discussed her new book, The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, as part of the Congressional Dialogue series. Speaking before an audience of more than two hundred Members of Congress, Prof. Sinha discussed the relevance of Reconstruction to contemporary politics, and to the issues Americans face today.