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Farah Peterson

Farah Peterson is a law professor and legal historian at the University of Chicago Law School.

On Our Knees

On Our Knees

What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power

by Farah Peterson | Tuesday, September 07, 2021
The Patriot Slave

The Patriot Slave

The dangerous myth that blacks in bondage chose not to be free in revolutionary America

by Farah Peterson | Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

Black Lives and the Boston Massacre

John Adams’s famous defense of the British may not be, as we’ve always understood it, the ultimate expression of principle and the rule of law

by Farah Peterson | Monday, December 03, 2018

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2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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