Tag: US history
Why the Pilgrims were actually able to survive
Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Sometime in the autumn of 1621, a group of English...
What Trump’s picks for the Presidential Medal of Freedom say about...
E. Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College; Christopher Devine, University of Dayton, and Kyle C. Kopko, Elizabethtown College
President Donald Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
Farmers are drawing groundwater from the giant Ogallala Aquifer faster than...
Char Miller, Pomona College
Every summer the U.S. Central Plains go dry, leading farmers to tap into groundwater to irrigate sorghum, soy, cotton, wheat and...
‘Traveling while black’ guidebooks may be out of print, but still...
Cotten Seiler, Dickinson College
In the summer of 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory for the state of Missouri.
Modeled after the international advisories...
Silicon Valley, from ‘heart’s delight’ to toxic wasteland
Andrew L. Russell, SUNY Polytechnic Institute and Lee Vinsel, Virginia Tech
There was a time when California’s Santa Clara Valley, bucolic home to orchards and...
Would Rachel Carson eat organic?
Robert Paarlberg, Harvard University
Rachel Carson, who was born on May 27, 1907, and launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,”...
Farmers and cropdusting pilots on the Great Plains worried about pesticide...
David Vail, University of Nebraska – Kearney
It is easy to frame conservation as a clash between environmentalists and polluters. But this view can greatly...
How one early 20th-century performer defanged her fat-shamers
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, University of South Carolina
It’s all-too-common for women – especially those in the public spotlight – to be criticized for their weight....
EXPLORING NATURE
Formula 1 racing shows the hard part of reaching net‑zero carbon...
Caitlin Grady, George Washington University and Sachi Nandurkar, George Washington University
Formula 1 auto racing is one of the...
