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Mourners picket after the Triangle fire. Their signs, hung with black crepe, accuse shop owners of graft, locked doors, and managing workers in fire traps.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

… in New York City over a century ago has shaped your life in ways you may not realize.  The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist … later, they saw workers from the ninth floor—who did not get a call and did not know what was happening until the … Investigating Commission, which travelled around the state visiting factories, talking with workers and observing …

Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab. … contempt for the village. Their basic identities dissolved away in the transition to affluence, young people like Mr. … blue-collar workers revealed deep dissatisfaction. "The job gets so sickening—day in and day out plugging in ignition …

Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money

… spiral of devaluations in an effort to export their way out of the ongoing economic slump. And the inescapable … by Mantega--where the world's leading economies race together to depreciate their currencies--are, in fact, … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …
dollar bill with image of capitol building in front of it

Deeper Than the “Deep State”: Follow the Money

… a year into Trump’s second term, his own supporters have become suspicious that even his Justice Department has joined … versions of what these phrases referred to, especially ways that well-funded interests so readily swayed … Party used the phrase “deep state” as a way to target Democrats, despite Lofgren’s having taken aim at both …

Playing Politics: Olympic Controversies Past and Present

… other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … than a "cloth of gold"? My answer is that the Games in many ways have always been a major international political … Jimmy Carter, threatening to boycott the Moscow Games altogether, did not attend the Winter Games in Lake Placid. …

Socialism Takes Over France, Again?

… welfare system—policies that the Left has ostensibly always stood for. And this at a time, these same conservatives … After meeting at the ENA, Royal and Hollande together became party stalwarts. Appearances to the contrary, … social security system that remains the envy of most visitors—and the pride of most French citizens. It …
the cover of a Captain America comic book

Captain America: Changing Conscience of a Nation

… agents murdered the scientist leading the research. Together, he and the United States would—in the words of the … “good war.” Four-color McCarthyism could not pull enough coins from adolescent pockets to prevent the superhero … As anti-war protests roiled the nation, the best way to preserve the altruistic self-conception of U.S. power …

Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now

… victory signals that the ERA has a renewed chance to become the 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To be … (the 19 th Amendment was ratified in 1920), it has not always been clear that the ERA would benefit all women since … classification, but the vast majority of activist women (together with the vast majority of Americans) rejected this …
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.

A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan

… In the warm early autumn months of 2019, I visited Northern Pakistan to trek in the shadows of some of … of only 0.75 years of schooling during their lifetime as compared to rural boys who receive 10.76 years. Further, … the chance to learn in a classroom. Even after I walked away from the campus, the wind blowing in the leaves of the …
Queen Mary’s College, opened in 1914.

A Postcard from Madras: A City Born of the Colonial Encounter

… he chose to settle the EIC where he could be near her and visit her frequently. Nearly four centuries later, the EIC … the Armenian Church, established in 1712 by traders all the way from Armenia. Closer to Egmore Station is a more … Madras did not have to travel to Europe or North Africa to get embroiled into World War I – it was right in their …
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943

The Nature of World War II

… an astonishing armada of nearly 3,000 ships. “There is no way of conveying the enormous size of that fleet,” wrote … in continents far removed from the conflict because of the compelling demand that war creates for forest and … and a host of alloys, and rely upon antibiotics when we get sick, we are following patterns of life pioneered and …
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.

Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today

… and tied to ropes and anchors off the bay, left to decompose within the ecosystem. Europeans who lived in the … to mass stranding events (MSEs) in their own religious ways but their treatment of the beached mammals was very … One other commonly suggested cause is that the animals get trapped by changing tides, especially in strong tidal …
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

… erected statues of him. Tiberius then struck and circulated coins celebrating his rebuilding efforts, the ancient … government response, however, was the emperor Nero. It always surprises people to hear that anything we consider … he had only been emperor for a few months, responded energetically in a very Neronian fashion. Portrait of the Roman …
Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces

… outside of Haifa, then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained … people lived with the modern landscape not merely visited it. His results have been mixed. When Halprin … the need to remember him in some larger, more significant way. After the first design competition failed to impress …
a can of Spaghetti-Os

Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

… The SpaghettiO is now a strangely timeless icon. Looking for a way to make canned pasta more exciting, Goerke experimented … every piece was in place for this circular pasta to become a staple of the American diet. By 2010, over 150 …
Cartoon in Punch, 1906.

For Iraq, a Lesson from Africa

… came to believe that rampant power and kleptocracy were the way of things. The only way to survive, never mind prosper, … own independence from tyranny. But before 9/11, astute commentators warned about grandiose calls for democracy to … century ago: Voting is the easy part; the rest is where it gets hard. That is especially true when the people who would …
One of Havana's plazas without a church.

A Postcard From Havana, Cuba

… the Havana shoreline, I rushed to the outside deck to get my first look at Cuba, a country that for so long seemed … of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t always so. After gaining independence in 1898, Cuba had a …
Engraving of Roman plague doctor, Schnabel c.1656.

Quarantino: Plague and the Origins of Social Distancing

… the world have urged social distancing measures as one way to contain the spread of the virus. Though some have … consumed crushed emeralds, ground up unicorn horns (a hard get to be sure), or theriac, a syrup made of various … “generated such horror that children did not dare to visit their dying parents, nor parents their children, but …

From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that sprouted … rhetoric" and "class-warfare policy." There are many ways to envision economic class in America. The term "99 … includes plenty of millionaires . The Congressional Budget Office offered this analysis of household income shortly …
A group of boys at Chirec International School in India playing Cricket, 2015.

Cricket without Boundaries: The Story of a Global Game

… victory over the 2021 champions,  Australia , along the wayFor a country that has experienced so much  conflict … now the second most popular sport in the world, bringing together billions of fans from nations as diverse as  India ,  … racially mixed teams from competing abroad and required visiting international teams to be composed of only white …
Herd of horses on desert-steppe

A Postcard from Eastern Kazakhstan

… In May 2019, during a visiting professorship at Nazarbayev University in … Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent … cave’s entrance in a gap in the hillside, and making our way down a long passage to the lake. Archeologists believe …

Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics

… are intended to celebrate unity through sport, they have always been used for political purposes. Adolf Hitler … of the new legislation, and Putin’s own remarks about visitors to Olympic Games, have focused on pedophilia as a … by extensive corruption and for the West, by laws targeting a persecuted minority. The ever-present threat of …