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* Quoted in “NPS orders removal of photo of enslaved man’s ‘scourged back,’” by Heather Richards, E&E News by Politico, September 17, 2025
* Quoted in “5 Years after George Floyd, the Backlash takes Hold,” by Clyde McGrady, The New York Times, May 25, 2025
* Quoted in “Trump 100 days: White House action plan makes Project 2025 look mild,” by Rachel Leingang, The Guardian May 2, 2025
* Interview, “From the Confederacy to the Gilded Age: Manisha Sinha on the ‘sorry history’ that inspires MAGA,” by Charles R. Davis, Salon April 4, 2025
* Quoted in “7 Influential Black Women Abolitionists,” By Becky Little, History Channel, March 24, 2025
* Quoted in “Trump is trying to undo the 14th amendment. Historians are horrified,” By Katie Hawkinson, The Independent January 25, 2025
* Quoted in “What happened to Black Lives Matter Momentum?” By Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg Opinion, January 24, 2025
* Mentioned in “Hope is at the Heart of “healthy mourning”: Finding Positivity while Grieving Donald Trump’s return,” By Chauncey DeVega Salon January 20, 2025
* Quoted in “Historian Manisha Sinha Discusses Book in Congressional Dialogue Series,” By Sarah Al-Arshani UConn Today, October 4, 2024
* Quoted in “NYC’s Madison Square Garden Faces Backlash After Planned Trump Rally,” By Paige Oamek, The New Republic October 9, 2024
* Quoted in “Civil War Reenactment,” By John Scott Lewinski, Washington Examiner October 2, 2024, 36-37
* Quoted in “Verdicts in Trump Case not what UConn history professor was expecting,” By Brian Hallenbeck, The Day May 31, 2024
* Quoted in “A Furious, Forgotten Slave Narrative Resurfaces After Nearly 170 Years,” By Jennifer Schuessler The New York Times May 23, 2024
* Quoted in “Trump’s Completely Incoherent Gettysburg Rant Gets Flayed on Twitter,” By Hafi Rashid, The New Republic, April 15, 2024
* Quoted in “America Beyond Bars: The Importance of Abolition,” by Candace King, Common Justice, February 22, 2024
* Quoted in “Slave memoirs yanked the face off of America’s façade,” By Zahara Hill The Reid Out Blog MSNBC February 13, 2024
* Quoted in “Can Trump Run? Historic Case will Test Supreme Court,” By Henry Gass The Christian Science Monitor, February 7, 2024
* Mentioned, “If it Walks like an Insurrection, and Talks like an Insurrection…” By Jamelle Bouie The New York Times January 30, 2024 (February 4, 2024 Print Edition)
* Quoted in “Why America is just now learning to love Thaddeus Stevens, the ‘Best-Hated Man’ in U.S. History,” By Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine December 2023
* Quoted in “Law Professors, historians react to news of Donald Trump’s federal indictment in classified document probe,” by John R. Ellement, The Boston Globe, June 9, 2023
* Quoted in “How Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘pedophile’ slur made it to ’60 Minutes,’” By Greg Sargent The Washington Post April 3, 2023
* Interviewed in “Trump Indictment no ‘witch hunt,’ UConn Professor says,” By Brian Hallenbeck, The Day March 31, 2023
* Quoted in “Connecticut Colleges Weigh in on Supreme Court Affirmative Action Cases,” The Day, December 3, 2022
* Quoted in “Is American Democracy Breaking? How Would We Know?” By Peter Grier, Christian Science Monitor November 8, 2022
* Interviewed in “Historians Advise the President: The Problem? The Scholars were all White.” By Sandhya Dirks, National Public Radio September 4, 2022
* Quoted in “The Buffalo Shooting was Centuries in the Making, Experts Say,” By Char Adams in NBC News, May 18, 2022
* Quoted in “What isn’t in the Constitution: A Guide for Tweeting Senators,” By Gillian Brockell The Washington Post March 24, 2022
* Quoted in “New Rules are limiting how teachers can teach Black History Month,” By Russell Contreras, Axios February 1, 2022
* Quoted in “One Year After the Capitol Attack, and Why it Could Happen Again,” by Liann Herder in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education January 6, 2022
* Quoted in “Julius S. Scott, Influential Historian of the Caribbean, Dies at 66,” By Sam Roberts, The New York Times, December 16, 2021
* Quoted in “Connecticut’s ‘time of reckoning’ with a colonial hero’s horrific past,” By Mark Pazniokas, The Connecticut Mirror November 18, 2021
* Quoted in “Two Seattle Candidates Reflect the Rise of Abolitionism in US Politics,” By Lilly Ann Fowler, October 21, 2021
* Quoted in “’Soul of the Railroad’: David Ruggles, the man who rescued Frederick Douglass,” By Javonte Anderson USA Today September 2, 2021
* Quoted in “Trump classe parmi les cancres de la presidence” By Fabien Diglise in Le Devoir July 7, 2021
* Quoted in “Colleges and Universities Prepare for Juneteenth, Still a Nationally Unrecognized Holiday,” By Liann Herder in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education June 10, 2021
* Quoted in “Tulsa Race Massacre Long Buried Chapter of US History,” By Deepti Hajela Associated Press, May 29, 2021
* Quoted in “The True Story of ‘The Underground Railroad,’” By Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, May 13, 2021
* Quoted in “Johns Hopkins, Slave Owner? Not So Fast,” By Steve Bell, Real Clear Politics May 6, 2021
* Quoted in “GOP State Lawmaker Slammed for Saying 3/5 Compromise Aimed to End Slavery,” The Huffington Post May 4, 2021
* Quoted in “The Politics of History,” By Deborah Yaffe Princeton Alumni Weekly (March 2021)
* Quoted in “Historians Correct Nikki Haley after George Washington Tweet,” By Darragh Roche, Newsweek, February 16, 2021
* Quoted in “Politicians Quote Abraham Lincoln a Lot. Historians Say They Don’t Always Do His Words Justice,” By Olivia B. Waxman, Time, February 11, 2021
* Quoted in “History-Maker Kamala Harris will Wield Real Power as Vice-President,” By Lauren Gambino The Guardian January 16, 2021
* Quoted in “Was the Attack on Congress un-American? Yes and No, Historians say,” By Anna Beahm in reckonsouth.com January 12, 2021
* Interview with Turkish newspaper Birgun January 8, 2021
* Quoted in “Sedition’: A Complicated History,” By Jennifer Schuessler in The New York Times, January 7, 2021
* Quoted in “2020 was a remarkably difficult year—not only because of the pandemic,” by Siobhan O’Grady The Washington Post December 31, 2020
* Quoted in “The Ten Best Movies Based on a True Story,” Time November 19, 2020
* Quoted in “Joe Biden’s Election Met with Mixed Reaction Among CT: A UConn History Professor Calls It the Most Consequential Since 1860,” NBC Connecticut, November 10, 2020
* Quoted in “What is Trump Playing At?” By Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, November 11, 2020
* Quoted in “Joe Biden’s Election Met with Mixed Reaction Among CT: A UConn History Professor Calls It the Most Consequential Since 1860,” NBC Connecticut, November 10, 2020
* “The Good Lord Bird: An Abolitionist’s Tale,” Ethan Hawke and James McBride Talk with Manisha Sinha, The New Yorker Festival, October 10, 2020
* Quoted in “Exploring the North’s Long History of Slavery, Scientific Racism,” By Brett Milano The Harvard Gazette October 9, 2020
* Quoted in “Scholars Discuss Scientific Racism, Abolition in Radcliffe Panel on Zealy Daguerreotype Book,” By Tracy Jiang and Meimei Xu The Harvard Crimson, October 9, 2020
* Quoted in “Soak in Empowerment through a Colorful Conversation as Women of Color Unite,” By Esther Ju The Daily Campus October 8, 2020; Part Two
* Quoted in “Fact Check: Historical Claims about Constitutional Amendments Lack Context,” By Mathew Brown, USA Today September 25, 2020
* Quoted in “Make an American Slavery Course a Requirement,” by Deirdre H. Barker in The City Pulse August 28, 2020
* Quoted in “The Historic Importance of Kamala Harris,” by Callie Crossley, August 17, 2020
* Interview, “The Meaning of Kamala Harris to Indian-Americans,” The Brian Lehrer Show, August 13, 2020
* Interview, “Historians Debate Worst Year Ever,” Cheddar with Jacob Munoz, August 13, 2020
* Cited in “Trump and His Allies Think They Know Who Counts,” by Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times, August 7, 2020
* Interviewed in “National Controversy over Central American Mascots Reaches Central Massachusetts,” By Cyrus Moulton, Worcester Telegram and Gazette, July 25, 2020
* Quoted in “As Statues of Founding Fathers Topple, Debate Rages Over where Protestors should Draw the Line,” By Annie Gowen in The Washington Post July 7, 2020
* Quoted in “Vandalism to Colonist Symbols Picks up Steam in Connecticut, Amid Question about Who is Behind Incident at Andover Library,” The Harford Courant July 6, 2020
* Quoted in “After the Columbus Statues Come Down, Will other Monuments Come Under Scrutiny?” By Steven Goode, The Harford Courant July 6, 2020
* Quoted in “Civil War Statues: Different Messages from Civil War Sides,” By Tracey O’Shaughnessy in Republican American, July 4, 2020
* Quoted in “Boston will Remove Statue of a Freed Slave Kneeling at Abraham Lincoln’s Feet as University of Wisconsin Students Petition to have Statue on their Campus Torn Down saying it’s ‘a Symbol of White Supremacy,’” By Heather Alexander, Daily Mail, July 1, 2020
* Quoted in “University of Wisconsin Students call for Removal of Abraham Lincoln Statue on Madison Campus,” By Kelly Meyerhofer, Chicago Tribune, June 30, 2020
* Quoted in “Cuanda las Estatuas caen del pedestal,” by Pablo Ximenez de Sandoval, El Pais June 29, 2020
* Quoted in “’Strategic’ or ‘Misguided’? Toppling of Statues Sparks Latest Debate on Madison Protests,” By Kelly Meyerhofer, Wisconsin State Journal, June 25, 2020
* Interview, “Should Statues of Historic Figures with Complicated Pasts be Taken Down?” by David Greene, NPR, Morning Edition, June 24, 2020
* Quoted in “Why Juneteenth Matters,” By Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times, June 19, 2020
* Quoted in “Black Bostonians Fought for Freedom from Slavery. Where are the Statues that Tell their Stories?” by Kevin M. Levin, WBUR Commentary, June 16, 2020
* Quoted in “The Conspiracy Theories that Fueled the Civil War,” The Atlantic May 29, 2020
* “Where Trump’s Acquittal Fits into the History Impeachment, According to Historians,” By Olivia Waxman, Time, February 6, 2020
* Cited in “Pence’s Outrageous Op-ed Hold a Deeper Meaning,” by Jeremi Suri in CNN, January 18, 2020
* Quoted in “The American Scion who Secured British Neutrality in the U.S. Civil War,” by Sara Georgini, Smithsonian Magazine, January 16, 2020
* Quoted in “The Fight Over the 1619 Project is Not About the Facts,” by Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, December 23, 2019
* Quoted in “In Den USA Driften Zwei Welten Auseinander,” By Martin Luscher in Finanz und Wirtschaft, December 23, 2019 and “Die Wichstisgte Wahl Zeit Jahrzehnten”
* Quoted in “Civility is Overrated,” By Adam Serwer in The Atlantic, December 2019
* Quoted in “7 Key Questions in the U.S. Slavery Reparations Debate,” By Dave Roos, December 2, 2019
*Quoted in “What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet,” By Rachelle Hampton, Slate, October 31, 2019
* Quoted in “Harvard President Apologizes for Reference to Freeing of Slaves in Discussing Fund-Raising Efforts,” By Deirdre Fernandes The Boston Globe September 28, 2019
*Quoted in “Joe Biden and the Disastrous History of Bipartisanship” by Branco Marcetic, In These Times, August 22, 2019
* “What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of Slavery,” by Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, August 14, 2019
* Letter to the Editor, “Abolishing Slavery,” The New York Times, July 5, 2019
Manisha Sinha, Historian 