Maribel Morey
Maribel Morey is a twentieth-century U.S. historian and historian of U.S. philanthropies. She is an assistant professor of history at Clemson University.
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Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Are Americans Really Champions of Racial Equality?
70 years after Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma, it's time to let go of the idea that America's morality will overcome its history of discrimination.
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Library of Congress Would Philanthropies Today Fund W.E.B. Du Bois’s Encyclopedia Africana?
Many contemporary foundations would want to tell you that, yes, unlike their predecessors, they would. But is that right?
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AP The Right Way and the Wrong Way to Privatize Science
This isn't America's first time seeing an infusion of personal wealth getting poured into research, but the last time around, it was done more democratically.
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Library of Congress Philanthropists and the White House: Who's the Boss?
Once, it was elite donors who courted the president. Today, it's precisely the reverse.
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Library of Congress How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?
For the foundations that have pledged millions to resuscitate Detroit, does the funding commit them to a long-term engagement or is it a one-time rescue mission?
