Bronwen Everill is a historian who teaches in the Princeton Writing Program and a research affiliate of Stellenbosch University’s Laboratory for the Economics of Africa’s Past. Her most recent book is Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance.
An illustration shows a coffeepot in the center of a sea of coffee with an American hand poking out of it. In the sea of coffee are four coffee cups with various figures floating in them with spoons as oars.
A man in a puffy North Face jacket over a shirt and tie looks to the side with his brow furrowed as he stands in front of a pile of twisted, war-damaged vehicles.
A resin model of a sculpture illustrating the World War I Christmas Truce soccer match is pictured inside the remains of St. Luke's Church in Liverpool, England.
An illustration depicting a partially redacted introduction of the U.S. Constitution, with the red lines covering the redacted words forming an American flag next to a field of blue stars positioned before the first lines.
An undated pencil drawing depicts work on a sugar plantation in the West Indies. Black children are among the laborers working to chop sugar cane under the watchful eye of a suited white overseer wearing a hat.
