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Americans in line to vote

The Supreme Court’s Starring Role in Democracy’s Demise

With democracy hanging in the balance in 2020, the Court is clearly playing a decisive and destructive role. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before.

by Carol Anderson via Boston Globe on September 6, 2020

Built to Last

When overwhelmed unemployment insurance systems malfunctioned, governments blamed the 60-year-old programming language COBOL. But what really failed?

by Mar Hicks via Logic on August 31, 2020

Mother with a laptop, surrounded by noisy children.

Suffrage Movement Convinced Women They Could ‘Have it All’

More than a century later, they’re still paying the price.

by Allison K. Lange via Made By History on August 25, 2020

Charles Averill’s The Cholera-Fiend: Fiction for a Pandemic

The 1850 novel reveals disturbing continuities between the 19th century cholera pandemics and global health crises today.

by Sari Alschuler, Paul Erickson via The Panorama on August 23, 2020

COVID-19 in History

Living through a momentus time has prompted many reflections on what the past has to teach us about why the pandemic took the shape that it did – and how we can better respond to it.

Five Myths About the U.S. Postal Service

It’s not obsolete, and it’s not a business.

by Richard R. John via Washington Post on August 21, 2020

Men lined up on a set of stairs.

Who Is "Essential"?

On the need to rethink the U.S. immigration and refugee policy, which was shaped as part of Cold War strategy.

by Mae Ngai via Perspectives on History on August 21, 2020

Two men sitting on a couch and laughing, with an American flag behind them

The Conceit of American Indispensability

As we mine the 1940s for alternate visions of international order, we must not presume that the US remains the benevolent center of global politics.

by Sam Klug via Boston Review on August 18, 2020

People wearing masks; one has a sign that reads "Wear a mask or go to jail."

The Last Pandemic

Using history to guide us in the difficult present.

by E. Thomas Ewing via Humanities on August 16, 2020

Beyond the End of History

Historians' prohibition on 'presentism' crumbles under the weight of events.

by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins via The Chronicle of Higher Education on August 14, 2020

We Should Still Defund the Police

Cuts to public services that might mitigate poverty and promote social mobility have become a perpetual excuse for more policing.

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor via The New Yorker on August 14, 2020

Black College Athletes Are Rising Up Against the Exploitative System They Labor In

Will coronavirus prompt the house of cards of college athletics to come tumbling down?

by Amira Rose Davis via Made By History on August 11, 2020

The Death and Rebirth of American Internationalism

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.

by Edward Fishman via Boston Review on August 11, 2020

A police officer on a horse in a city street

The Problem With Asking Police to Enforce Public Health Measures

Policing public health is likely to result in increased racial disparities.

by Emily M. Brooks via Made By History on August 10, 2020

Daycare classroom

Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis.

by Anna K. Danziger Halperin via Made By History on August 6, 2020

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey speaks about school COVID policy.

The Undemocratic History of School "Pandemic Pods"

Why Americans rejected educating only the children of the wealthy.

by Mark Boonshoft via Made By History on August 5, 2020

Two people clinking their bottles of beer together.

Let Us Drink in Public

Open container laws criminalize working-class people and make public life less fun. We need to legalize public drinking.

by Miles Kampf-Lassin via Jacobin on August 4, 2020

Stop Worrying About Protecting ‘Taxpayers.’ That Isn’t the Government’s Job.

Republicans are replacing the public good with a far narrower definition of it.

by Lawrence B. Glickman via Washington Post on August 3, 2020

Americans Are Determined to Believe in Black Progress

Whether it’s happening or not.

by Jennifer A. Richeson via The Atlantic on July 27, 2020

The 1904 Olympic Marathon May Have Been the Dumbest Race Ever Run

While we're missing three weeks of sporting endeavors due to the Tokyo Olympics, we can revisit one of the most bizarre races in modern Olympic history.

by Jake Sturmer, Rebecca Armitage via ABC News on July 25, 2020

A colorized photo of migrant children in 1942.

How to Interpret Historical Analogies

They’re good for kickstarting political debate but analogies with the past are often ahistorical and should be treated with care.

by Moshik Temkin via Aeon on July 22, 2020

Fauci speaking at a White House podium with Trump glaring behind him

Trump’s Campaign Against Fauci Ignores the Proven Path for Defeating Pandemics

When medicine and journalism defeated cholera.

by David T. Z. Mindich via Made By History on July 22, 2020

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders

Postal Banking is Making a Comeback. Here’s How to Ensure it Becomes a Reality.

Grass-roots pressure will be key to turning the idea into reality.

by Christopher W. Shaw via Made By History on July 21, 2020

The Depression-Era Book That Wanted to Cancel the Rent

“Modern Housing,” by Catherine Bauer, argued—as many activists do today—that a decent home should be seen as a public utility and a basic right.

by Nora Caplan-Bricker via The New Yorker on July 18, 2020

The USS Constitution glides through Boston Harbor.

Early Americans Knew Better Than President Trump How To Prioritize Health

A public uprising forced Boston to prioritize fighting smallpox over the economy in 1792.

by Andrew Wehrman via Made By History on July 17, 2020

The Influenza Masks of 1918

Images from a century ago of people doing their best to keep others and themselves safe.

by Alan Taylor via The Atlantic on July 16, 2020

Americans Need to Know the Hard Truth About Union Monuments in the West

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

by Megan Kate Nelson via The Atlantic on July 10, 2020

Photograph of Mike Mahoney on the White House grounds.

Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

“We’re the virus.” So read a tweet in March praising reports of less pollution in countries under COVID-19 lockdown. By mid-April, it had nearly 300,000 likes.

by Alex Amend via Political Research Associates on July 9, 2020

How Black Women Fought Racism and Sexism for the Right to Vote

African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.

via Retro Report on July 6, 2020

The Baby-Sitters Club Is Ready to Teach a New Generation About Work

Locked-down parents will need an army of tween child-minders. Let the Baby-Sitters Club show them the way.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on July 3, 2020

The Mainstreaming of Christian Zionism Could Warp Foreign Policy

How the history of dispensationalism shapes U.S. foreign policy today.

by Jeffrey Rosario via Made By History on June 30, 2020

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