Continuing with my recent suggestion that 2016 was a marquee year for the intellectual history of race, I started a series of interviews with three authors whose books about race came out this past year to much acclaim. A few weeks ago I interviewed Ibram X. Kendi. Today I am excited to share with our readers an interview with Robert Parkinson, author of The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution that won the OAH’s James A. Rawley Prize for the best book in race relations. Parkinson is Assistant Professor at SUNY, Binghamton.   Read more