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Karl Jacoby

Karl Jacoby

Karl Jacoby is the Allan Nevins Professor of American History at Columbia University. He is the author of Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin, 2008) and The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire (Norton, 2016), among other works. In 2021–22, he will be the Andrew Mellon Fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, where he will be researching a book on the US-Mexico War and its legacies. icon

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Borders Don’t Stop Violence—They Create It

By Monica Muñoz Martinez & Karl Jacoby

The “border” is not a line on the ground, but a tool to enable violence and surveillance.

The Never-Ending Frontier?

By Karl Jacoby

The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.

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