Yearly Archives: 2015

A Hero’s Story

Inside John Copeland

John Anthony Copeland, Jr. was a heroic figure at the center of John Brown's fight against slavery and his raid on Harper's Ferry, but he is just a footnote in most accounts of the momentous raid. Steven Lubet, the author of The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry, talks about what his decision to bring Copeland's narrative to light and the surprising discoveries he made along the way.

A Hero at Harper’s Ferry

Take a peek inside The "Colored Hero" of Harper's Ferry, the story of John Anthony Copeland, Jr. and his role in the fight for U.S. emancipation.

Explore the Life of John Anthony Copeland, Jr.

Steven Lubet’s The “Colored Hero” of Harper’s Ferry reveals the incredible untold story of a 25-year-old black man, born free in North Carolina and committed to the abolitionist cause, who was at the center of John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and, inevitably, the national fight for emancipation. He fought bravely at Harper’s Ferry, only to be captured […]

Living on the Edge

Uriel Abulof, the author of The Mortality and Morality of Nations, meditates on global existential threats and fears.

The Nanoscale

Douglas Natelson, the author of Nanostructures and Nanotechnology, takes on the controversy of nanoscience.

Interwar Paris and Third World Nationalism

Historian Michael Goebel gives a compelling narrative of the spread of a global anti-imperialism from the vantage point of Paris between the two World Wars. Anti-Imperial Metropolis is part of the Global and International History series

Ending World War II

Introduction to Part I by Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze The First World War had been won by global economic force. The global superiority of the victorious powers, foremost the USA and Great Britain, was smothering in the aftermath of the war. In the 1930s, it took the brinkmanship of states set on destroying the international system, a veritable revolution […]