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Guess What? The New Deal Worked!
… denounced the WPA as “We Putter Around.” The new Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, recently …
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 …
Children at Play: An American History
Review of Children at Play: An American History, by Howard Chudacoff (New York: New York University Press, 2007)
A Century of Elected Woman Governors in the United States, 1924-2024
… parties and from across the U.S. gathered to form the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC). One of the … following year, in 1975, the United Nations declared “ International Year of the Woman .” Grasso’s election, as the …
In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement
Review of In the Beginning: Fundamentalism, The Scopes Trial, and the Making of the Antievolution Movement, by Michael Lienesch (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
… of myths. Fundamentalists began to unite across denominational boundaries in order to defend their faith and their …
A Who’s Who of Jihadi Terrorism in Europe
Review of Islamist Terrorism in Europe: A History, by Petter Nesser (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015)
The Founders Never Imagined a Bush Administration
… to engage in unconstitutional behavior in the interest of "national security." Then Congress was reacting to violation …
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, …
Spaghetti in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
… any context. Warhol's "32 Soup Cans" is on display at the National Gallery of Art. The repeating printed cans provide …
“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force
Review of The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival, by Paul Conrad (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
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
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 …
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 …
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, …
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)
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 …
