Tag: history
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
The magazine that inspired Rolling Stone
Peter Richardson, San Francisco State University
The 50th anniversary of Rolling Stone magazine has arrived, and not without fanfare. Joe Hagan’s biography of co-founder Jann...
In America’s sandwiches, the story of a nation
Paul Freedman, Yale University; Andrew P. Haley, The University of Southern Mississippi; Imogene L. Lim, Vancouver Island University; Ken Albala, University of the Pacific,...
What hundreds of American public libraries owe to Carnegie’s disdain for...
Arlene Weismantel, Michigan State University
The same ethos that turned Andrew Carnegie into one of the biggest philanthropists of all time made him a fervent...
How ‘Germany’s Hugh Hefner’ created an entirely different sort of sex...
Elizabeth Heineman, University of Iowa
Hugh Hefner’s death has reopened bitter debates about his place in history.
Many obituaries in the mainstream media have described him...
How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice...
Lane Eagles, University of Washington
One could say the consequences of the planet’s warming climate can be seen on fashion week runways and the shelves...
The Confederate statue debate: 3 essential reads
Nick Lehr, The Conversation
Editor’s note: The following is a roundup of archival stories related to the debate over what to do with Confederate statues.
The...
What to do with Confederate statues?
James Glaser, Tufts University
Could Russia teach us something about how to deal with difficult aspects of our national history?
Many places in the South –...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
