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For a long time, when I heard the word “classicist,” I pictured someone very specific: an older white man surrounded by shelves of books, translating Greek and Latin in a university office. My own journey into classical studies was not straightforward. It left me with an uncomfortable question: Was I borrowing someone else’s cultural inheritance,…
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Bridging Historical Worlds: Translating Africa & Byzantium World into Sixth Grade Harlem Classrooms [Karen Peláez, Michelle Haynes, Channing Moore] © 2026 Channing Moore. All Rights Reserved.
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Why does Lupita Nyong’o playing Helen of Troy feel controversial? At first, the answer seems obvious. Helen has occupied the Western imagination for thousands of years, becoming what Christopher Marlowe later called “the face that launched a thousand ships,’ and generations of Western paintings, sculptures, textbooks, films, and popular retellings have taught modern audiences to…
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When Fred Wilson created Mining the Museum in 1992, he did something deceptively simple. He entered the Maryland Historical Society, studied its collection, and rearranged what was already there. He did not need to invent a new historical record. The objects existed. The records existed. The history existed. What Wilson changed was the relationship among…
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I am African American on both sides of my family, with roots in the United States extending back more than five generations. I was born in New York City, a place that has always been home. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, my family decamped from New York to Saint Lucia, and for an adventurous period…
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