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Close-up of a tan tactical helmet attached to the outside of a matching backpack. The helmet has a rectangular patch with the text “INDEL” and a symbol, plus smaller patches including a U.S. flag. The backpack features straps, compartments, and attached gear such as a water bottle. The scene is tightly framed, focusing on the gear’s texture, stitching, and muted earth-tone colors.

The Politicized Premodern Past A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 162 (October 2028) Abstract Deadline: October 15, 2026 Co-edited by Robin Reich (Assistant Professor, Seattle University) and Sarina Kuersteiner (Assistant Professor, Union College) Assistant Editors: Adam Matthews (Assistant Professor, Alma College), Claire Dillon (PhD Candidate, Columbia University), Benjamin Bertrand (PhD Candidate, Fordham University), and Alice Grissom (PhD Student, Rutgers University) This issue of Radical History Review invites contributions that interrogate the diverse ways in which premodern periods of history are used in the present to advance, legitimate, and contest politics of division and dominance around […]

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The Politicized Premodern Past – Proposals Due October 15, 2026

Black‑ink hand drawing on paper illustrating a simplified Earth divided by the Equator. The left side shows daylight with a sun above water and a sailing ship; the right side shows nighttime with a crescent moon, stars, and a fish in the water. A vertical land shape runs from the South Pole through the Equator. Handwritten labels read “Polo S,” geographic coordinates, and “Ecuador.”

Unsettling Homelands: Radical Histories of the (Ethno)Nation-State A Call for Proposals from the Radical History Review Issue number 161 (May 2028) Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2026 Co-edited by Liza Black and Adrian De Leon The homeland is not a place. It is a problem. It is the central problem of modern politics: the violent, enduring, and unsettling question of who belongs, and who gets to decide. This question animates the nostalgic longing of diasporas, the exclusionary fervor of ethnonationalists, the economic strategies of developing states, and the relentless resistance of Indigenous peoples for whom the homeland was never a question, […]

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Unsettling Homelands: Radical Histories of the (Ethno)Nation-State – Proposals …

Cover of Radical History Review, January 2026, issue 154. A black-and-white illustrated drawing shows a person lying on their side on a pillow or mat, eyes closed, with arms folded under the head, beneath a simple wooden frame. The background features dense line patterns resembling textured fabric or ground. The title “Radical History Review” appears at the top, and the subtitle reads, “The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose.”

CLICK HERE for the table of contents and links to full text. The Rest is Political: Radical Histories of Repose This issue of Radical History Review explores how individuals and communities have shaped history through states of repose, slumber, and dreaming, as it assembles a history of the present through the study of the sites of and rights to rest in the past. Features Hermann von Hesse traces how meanings of home as resting place for living and ancestral kin changed under new commercial relations on Africa’s Gold Coast in the early nineteenth century. Khal Schneider shows how Indigenous Pomo-speakers […]

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The Rest Is Political: Radical Histories of Repose