Kevin Grant is a professor of history at Hamilton College and is currently completing a book on hunger strikes in the British Empire. He is the author of A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926 (2005) and other works on empire and humanitarian politics.
Kevin Grant
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All Ireland in a Grave
A hanged man was never more popular. One hundred years ago, the British government executed Roger Casement for his participation in a rebellion in Ireland, the Easter Rising of 1916. This year, schoolchildren and tourists by the thousands have visited Casement’s gravesite in Dublin. It is part of a centennial pilgrimage in honor of the […]
