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Jan 8, 2025 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Modern British History |Manisha Sinha
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
thenation.com | Manisha Sinha
Books & the Arts / November 19, 2024 Slavery in an Age of EmancipationRobin Blackburn’s sweeping history of slavery and freedom in the second half of the 19th century. Ad Policy A detail of a painting by Thomas Nast.(Getty)Robin Blackburn is undoubtedly one of the most prolific writers on the transnational histories of slavery and abolition in the Americas today.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
khabar.com | Manisha Sinha
Home > Magazine > Features > Perspective: An Acclaimed Historian Endorses Kamala HarrisBy Manisha Sinha MANISHA SINHA, a historian who focuses on America, urges her fellow desis to vote for the first Indian American President. Voting for Kamala Harris should not just be a matter of identity politics, she notes, but a rallying cry to save democracy in our adopted nation.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
americankahani.com | Manisha Sinha
In 2020, when I wrote about Kamala Harrisâ selection as the Democratsâ Vice Presidential candidate, âNot only does she represent the very groups mocked and vilified by Mr. Trump â women, black people, and immigrants â but also, as a woman of Afro-Indian descent, she might very well be the future face of American politics,â I was not predicting current events.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Manisha Sinha
Eric Foner, the distinguished historian of the Civil War era, remarked in the preface to his own book on Reconstruction that the period “cannot be fully understood without attention to its distinctively Northern and national dimensions.” Now, Manisha Sinha, a Foner acolyte at Columbia University and the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut, has written a book focusing on just that.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
shethepeople.tv | Manisha Sinha
As I reflect on my journey, I cannot help but ponder the intricate intersections of privilege, bias, and progress that have shaped my professional career. I was raised in a family where education was revered, and women's empowerment was a norm rather than an exception. In 1947, the year India won her independence, whilst the country’s literacy rate was only 14 per cent and female literacy was abysmally low at 8 per cent, both my grandmothers were educated.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
audible.com | Matthew Stewart |Manisha Sinha |Alan Taylor |James Marcus
How a band of antislavery leaders recovered the radical philosophical inspirations of the first American Revolution to defeat the slaveholders' oligarchy in the Civil War. In their struggle against the slaveholding oligarchy of their time, America's antislavery leaders found their way back to the rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist inspiration for the first American Revolution.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
msn.com | Manisha Sinha
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
cnn.com | Manisha Sinha
Editor’s Note: Manisha Sinha is the Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of multiple works on the history of slavery and abolition, the Civil War and Reconstruction, including the forthcoming “The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: A Long History of Reconstruction, 1860-1900.” She signed an amicus brief of historians in Trump v. Anderson. The views expressed here are hers. Read more opinion on CNN.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
courant.com | Manisha Sinha
An open letter to Governor Ned Lamont on UConn’s budget:We write to you as endowed chairs and as distinguished professors at the University of Connecticut to express our deep alarm over the drastic budget cuts proposed for UConn. This severe draining of resources from academic units at the university will inflict permanent, irreparable harm to the Research-1 standing of the flagship university of the state of Connecticut and threatens its accreditation in the long run.
