Tag: World War II
A world without sports
Lars Dzikus, University of Tennessee
Baseball’s opening day came and went. The Olympics have been postponed. Football in the fall? Don’t count on it.
With COVID-19...
Workers left out of government and business response to the coronavirus
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management
As the coronavirus crisis unfolds, workers and families around the country are finding out how weak the U.S....
Health care workers wanted: A veteran needs you to work at...
Sanjay Saint, University of Michigan
Flying home from Florida recently, I was seated across the aisle from an elderly man wearing a hat identifying himself...
Video games can bring history back to life
Bob De Schutter, Miami University
It is one thing to learn about history in a classroom. But as any visitor to a living museum or...
Diets can do more than help you lose weight – they...
Adrienne Rose Bitar, Cornell University
Fad diets have long been brushed off as selfish, superficial quests to lose weight.
But if you study the actual content...
What Hanukkah’s portrayal in pop culture means to American Jews
Ted Merwin, Dickinson College
When I was growing up in suburban New York, Hanukkah was not grounded in religious observance. Having no clue that there...
Veterans have fought in wars – and fought against them
Michael Messner, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
If President Donald Trump had his way, the nation would be...
How one ‘Rosie the Riveter’ poster won out over all the...
Sarah Myers, Saint Francis University and G. Kurt Piehler, Florida State University
Seventy-five years ago, Norman Rockwell’s painting of Rosie the Riveter appeared on the...
EXPLORING NATURE
The inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America’s most famous...
Alessandro Meregaglia, Boise State University
For the sharpest minds in show business, there’s always another hustle.
