Tag: US history
Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access...
Robert Glennon, University of Arizona
The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square...
‘Courage is contagious’: Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to release the Pentagon Papers...
Christian Appy, UMass Amherst
In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked...
Gender-affirming care has a long history in the US – and...
G. Samantha Rosenthal, Roanoke College
In 1976, a woman from Roanoke, Virginia, named Rhoda received a prescription for two...
Why the humble city bus is the key to improving US...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Hunter College
Public transit in the U.S. is in a sorry state – aging, underfunded and...
As climate change and overuse shrink Lake Powell, the emergent landscape...
Daniel Craig McCool, University of Utah
As Western states haggle over reducing water use because of declining flows in...
Why are there prisons? An expert explains the history of using...
Joshua Long, UMass Lowell
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
God and guns often go together in US history – this...
Joseph P. Slaughter, Wesleyan University
Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S....
Student ‘slave auctions’ illustrate the existence of a hidden culture of...
Barbara Harris Combs, Kennesaw State University
In an otherwise normal football season, two California high schools abruptly canceled the...