Tag: US history
‘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....
Presidents often reverse US foreign policy — how Trump handles setbacks...
Charles Hermann, Texas A&M University
The United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, according to a May 8 announcement by President Donald...
Lynching memorial will show that women were victims, too
Evelyn M. Simien, University of Connecticut
A memorial to victims of lynching in the U.S. opens in Alabama on April 26, 2018.
The National Memorial for...
In the DACA debate, which version of America – nice or...
Carrie Tirado Bramen, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Toward the beginning of my new book “American Niceness: A Cultural History,” I...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a...
Dan Salas, University of Illinois Chicago
There’s a well-worn debate in U.S. politics that goes something like this: Would...
