In "The Past is Another Planet" (March 2004) I summarize the contrasting problems of locating research funding for studies in world history. This opinion piece is published in World History Connected (online), vol. 1, no. 2 (2004).

"Black History: triumphs and tragedies," The following commentary, written in 2002 in recognition of Black History Month by World History Center director Patrick Manning, was published on the website of the College Board.

Here is a letter I wrote to the Social Science Research Council in 1997, proposing that fellowships be allocated for global studies and not just area studies. SSRC formally considered the idea, but decided not to pursue it.

It is my opinion that the practice of convening "truth and reconciliation" commissions, which has spread widely through the southern hemisphere and developed most fully in South Africa, will eventually come to the United States. While it may take twenty years or more before such a public discussion takes place, I think it is a likely response of the next generation to the need to explain the current wave of militarism, great-power bullying, corporate greed, torture, and bribery by leading figures in the U.S., and to take steps toward reconciliation of conflicting interests within the U.S. and in its international relations.