Tag: history
How the shadow of slavery still hangs over global finance
Philip Roscoe, University of St Andrews
When the infamous Zong trial began in 1783, it laid bare the toxic relationship between finance and slavery. It...
Monuments ‘expire’ – but offensive monuments can become powerful history lessons
Alan Marcus, University of Connecticut and Walter Woodward, University of Connecticut
Historical monuments are intended to be timeless, but almost all have an expiration date....
Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
Dwanna L. McKay, Colorado College
Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that much of the eastern part of the state...
How one woman pulled off the first consumer boycott – and...
Tom Zoellner, Chapman University
While many companies have trumpeted their support for the Black Lives Matter movement, others are beginning to face consumer pressure for...
5 ways the world is better off dealing with a pandemic...
Siddharth Chandra, Michigan State University and Eva Kassens-Noor, Michigan State University
Near the end of the First World War, a deadly flu raced across the...
Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the...
Susan Wade, Keene State College
As a professor of medieval Europe, I’ve taught the bubonic plague, and how it contributed to the English Peasant Revolt...
Long before face masks, Islamic healers tried to ward off disease...
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan
Just as many now don face masks and do breathing exercises to protect against COVID-19 – despite debate around the...
The dirty history of soap
Judith Ridner, Mississippi State University
“Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds.” That’s what the CDC has advised all...
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
