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The federal government commissioned a series of public murals from the artists it employed: William Gropper's Construction of a Dam (1939) is characteristic of much of the art of the 1930s, with workers seen in heroic poses, laboring in unison to complete a great public project.

Guess What? The New Deal Worked!

… denounced the WPA as “We Putter Around.” The new Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, recently …
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky

Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students

… I'm not sure who these people are. I think it's a class reunion, potentially a high school class reunion. But I'm not 100% sure, that's what the picture is. We … about what blended bodies trigger regarding patriotism, nationalism, and erasure. And I wonder what mixed urban or …
Marlin Stutzman US senate campaign, 2016 (Support a Balanced Budget Amendment)

An Amendment Whose Time Has Never Come

… was offered as an anti-New Deal measure. At a time when national obligations in domestic and international affairs were growing rapidly and substantially, …
Mao Zedong clapping and Mao Zedong speaking at a microphone

The Founding of the People's Republic of China

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China marking the end of China’s chaotic era of foreign domination since the mid-18th century.
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks book cover.

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
… ideas about corporate responsibility, civic involvement, nationalism, bureaucracy, and tradition. Dirks organizes …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… have gravitated, unfortunately, to the far right, to the national front. So that is one of the unhappy developments … precisely, part of the appeal of the far right is that the National Front movement of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and now it is …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… time, protection from venereal infection became a matter of national security. The use of condoms, while not valorous, …
The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.

A Woman Scorned?

Review of The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, by Carole Haber (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
Pledging his support, President George W. Bush talks via telephone to New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists

… War has an American president thought through what the international role of the United States should be. A continuance … States … World War I / WWI … Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists …