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My forthcoming book Kingdoms of This World: How Empires Have Made and Remade Religions (Baylor University Press, 2024) focuses on the history of empires,

In the novel NIGHT WHEREVER WE GO, author Tracey Rose Peyton traces the lives of six enslaved women on a small Texas farm.

Immigration across the US-Mexico border has been a politically charged topic for more than half a century. Those who attempt to cross the border undocumented face perilous journeys that can cost them their lives and, in many cases, result in a large number of unidentified human remains cases that overwhelm local resources for death investigation.

One of the realities that nullifies persistent interpretations of the European colonization of the Americas as a cataclysm of subjugation is the existence of state exploitation in the precontact New World. As I have recently shown, many common Indians lived in banal slavery to a political class—the same servitude that every “citizen” of a state lives under, compelled to labor for the benefit of others, albeit with its own unique packaging and set of justifications. What this means is that there were also many politicians in the precontact world, with the same base lust for power that dr...

Commentary: Forgetting - and remembering - the Alamo Paul Stekler, For the Express-News July 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of3 Descendants of Alamo defenders place wreaths in 2019. History is not set in stone. Over time, people discover diaries and documents. They learn about forgotten events.Bob Owen /San Antonio Express-NewsShow MoreShow Less 2of3 Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth Hardcover - June 8, 2021, by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, Jason StanfordHandoutShow MoreShow Less 3of3 Texas Lt. Gov Dan Patrick recently canceled a discussion about “Forget the Alamo�...