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Robert G. Parkinson

Bylines

“Invasion is a Structure Not an Event.” On Settler Colonialism and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

When he reflected on the consequences of empire, Conrad saw no logic or teleology. He saw mayhem. There is no surety in "Heart of Darkness."

by Robert G. Parkinson via Literary Hub on May 29, 2024
Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.

by Robert Allison, Seth Cotlar, Manuel Covo, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Maya Jasanoff, Robert G. Parkinson, Carla Gardina Pestana, Andrew Schocket, Alexander Tsesis, Zara Anishanslin, Kathleen DuVal, Caitlin Fitz, Annette Gordon-Reed, Tiya Miles, Johann N. Neem, Peter S. Onuf, Steven Pincus, Jack Rakove, Gautham Rao, Claudio Saunt, Karin Wulf, Nicole Eustace, Sarah Georgini via Declaration Resources Project on June 1, 2017

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

Robert G. Parkinson

The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution

Robert G. Parkinson

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Patriot Propaganda

A new book argues that race and racism fueled the fires of the American Revolution.

by Gautham Rao via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on November 25, 2018

The Captive Aliens Who Remain Our Shame

On the origins of racial exclusion in the society that would become the United States of America.

by Annette Gordon-Reed via New York Review of Books on January 19, 2017

“In the White Interest”

Many founders expressed their hope that slavery would be abolished, while simultaneously exerting themselves to defend it.

by Timothy Messer-Kruse via HNN on September 18, 2024

Sesationalized painting of Native Americans about to scalp a white woman. The Murder of Jane McCrae by John Vanderlyn, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut

“White People,” Victimhood, and the Birth of the United States

White racial victimhood was a primary source of power for settlers who served as shock troops for the nation.

by Gregory Rodriguez via Contra Mundum on June 9, 2022

The Hidden Stakes of the 1619 Controversy

Critics of the New York Times’s 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate among historians over whether the American Revolution was a proslavery revolt.

by David Waldstreicher via Boston Review on January 24, 2020

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