Tag: US history
Shutting down school vaccine clinics doesn’t protect minors – it hurts...
Katherine A. Foss, Middle Tennessee State University
A 1918 newspaper article captures public attitudes toward a typhoid vaccine clinic...
Why condos caught on in America
Matthew Gordon Lasner, Hunter College
The tragic collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, on June 24, 2021,...
With Ford’s electric F-150 pickup, the EV transition shifts into high...
Brian C. Black, Penn State
When President Joe Biden took Ford’s electric F-150 Lightning pickup for a test drive...
Misunderstanding addiction breeds despair and suffering – and, for alleged Atlanta...
Trysh Travis, University of Florida
When a man claiming to suffer from the disease of sex addiction found that...
What Alexander Hamilton’s deep connections to slavery reveal about the need...
Nicole S. Maskiell, University of South Carolina
Alexander Hamilton has received a resurgence of interest in recent years on...
How a flu virus shut down the US economy in 1872...
Ernest Freeberg, University of Tennessee
In 1872 the U.S. economy was growing as the young nation industrialized and expanded westward. Then in the autumn, a...
Returning the ‘three sisters’ – corn, beans and squash – to...
Christina Gish Hill, Iowa State University
Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal...
What makes a ‘good’ patriot? Donald Trump may be surprised by...
Stewart Clem, Aquinas Institute of Theology
When President Donald Trump talks about “patriots” – and he does, a lot – he probably doesn’t have in...
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...
