Jonathan Michaels, one-time chef and longtime lecturer at UConn Hartford, has written one cookbook and two excellent historical studies of McCarthyism. His new book project is on leftist politics and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union, under contract with Routledge. This week, with the election of a democratic socialist as mayor of New York, he returns to the vibrant world of immigrants, leftists, and union struggles in early 20th century New York for a piece in Jacobin about Morris Hillquit, “The Socialist Who Helped Bring Marx to America.”

The Southern Historical Association will be hosting a roundtable discussion of Prof. Manisha Sinha’s, The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina, in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its publication. The discussion will take place on November 7, from 2:30 – 4:30 P.M. In addition to Manisha Sinha, the panel will feature Lorri Glover (Saint Louis University), W. Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina), Justene Hill Edwards (University of Virginia), Matthew Karp (Princeton University), and Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (Indiana University).

The Rutgers Climate Symposium fosters collaboration among researchers and students across all disciplines from institutions in the Mid-Atlantic region who are interested in climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, or other approaches to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

More info and attendance registration here.

Professor Manisha Sinha is doing a lecture tour in China and the Chinese book launch of The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (2016) in Beijing. She will be lecturing in Wuhan University, Peking University, Shanghai Normal University, and East China Normal University.

Link here

Professor Manisha Sinha will deliver the Richard Greener Lecture at the University of South Carolina, Columbia on October 15, 2025 on her new book on Reconstruction. Previous speakers have included Professor Randall Kennedy of Harvard Law School and Representative James Clyburn of South Carolina.

“WHY CONCORD? The geological origins of the American Revolution” by Robert A. Gross and Robert M. Thorson recently appeared in The Atlantic. They were also interviewed about their work and featured in a UConn today article entitled “Place Matters. History Is the Result” by Elaina Hancock which can be found here.

New York Times opinion columnist Jamelle Bouie recently recommended Professor Andy Horowitz’s Katrina: A History, 1915–2015. “It’s just a wonderful history,” he asserted. “A great perspective on…thinking through America in the 20th century from the perspective of this singular event that was Hurricane Katrina.”

You can read the full article here.

Prof. Manisha Sinha was recently interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Topics of discussion include President Trump and Project 2025. Open post to listen.

Professor Rozwadowski’s research on Arthur C. Clark and ocean exploration in the second half of the 20th century has been featured in the September 26, 2025 blog post of JSTOR Daily.

Blog post:

Arthur C. Clarke’s Scuba Adventures and Ocean Frontiers – JSTOR Daily

Article:

Arthur C. Clarke and the Limitations of the Ocean as a Frontier on JSTOR