History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin To most Americans, the names of Squanto, Sacagawea, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull are relatively familiar—although how they are described usually depends on their relationship to the White culture of their day. Their individual histories... Appears in: 59 | American Indians in Leadership Winter 2021
History Now Essay From Colony to Nation: Liberian Independence and Black Self-Government in the Atlantic World Claude A. Clegg III Government and Civics, World History The emergence of the independent republic of Liberia on the coast of West Africa in the mid-nineteenth century was a historically significant turn of events in several ways. Led by a Black American settler class that sought to rule... Appears in: 61 | The Declaration of Independence and the Origins of Self-Determination in the Modern World Fall 2021