Jonathan M. Hansen
Cognoscenti contributor
Jonathan M. Hansen, a historian at Harvard University, is the author of "The Lost Promise of Patriotism: Debating American Identity, 1890-1920" (2003). He is completing a biography of the young Fidel Castro, to be published by Simon & Schuster.
Recently published
In W. E. B. Du Bois, Finding An Identity Politics We Can All Believe In
In the wake of a bruising election, writes Jonathan M. Hansen, and in the one month of the year devoted to black history, it seems an opportune time to pay...