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Jefferson Cowie

Jefferson Cowie is James G. Stahlman Chair in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. His most recent book, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in History.

Articles

Jefferson Cowie speaks with Aziz Rana about whether the language of freedom can be taken back from its "sordid history" in the U.S. context.

Aziz Rana, Jefferson Cowie

Talk of American freedom has long been connected to the presumed right of whites to dominate everyone else.

Jefferson Cowie

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We shouldn't rehabilitate the rhetoric of liberty.
Jefferson Cowie

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