Tag: US history
In Rio’s bulldozed _favelas,_ echoes of America’s shantytowns
Lisa Goff, University of Virginia
The 500,000 tourists expected to attend the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro will see a dazzling city, miles...
What anti-Trump activists can learn from Chicago ’68
David Farber, University of Kansas
So far, anti-Trump protests at the Republican convention in Cleveland have been relatively small in number, with marches in the...
Trump’s dog whistle: the white, screwed-over sports icon
Kyle W. Kusz, University of Rhode Island
While athletes and coaches can be overlooked vehicles of political ideology, they often play key symbolic roles in...
How John Muir’s incessant study saved Yosemite
Michael Wurtz, University of the Pacific
Run a Google search on naturalist and preservationist John Muir and you will quickly turn up one of his...
In a state wrought with racial tension, Jackie Robinson…
In a state wrought with racial tension, Jackie Robinson suited up for his first spring training game
Chris Lamb, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Seventy years ago,...
The twisted roots of U.S. land policy in the West
John Freemuth, Boise State University
The seizure of a Malheur National Wildlife Refuge building in southeastern Oregon by armed and self-styled “constitutionalists” was...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
