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Tracy Ehlert, a substitute teacher, in a classroom
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Today’s Teacher Shortages are Part of a Longer Pattern

Until school boards and administrators listen to teachers, they’ll end up with shortages in every crisis.
Health care workers on strike, holding picket signs.
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Are We Witnessing a ‘General Strike’ in Our Own Time?

W.E.B. Du Bois defined the shift from slavery to freedom as a “general strike” — and there are parallels to today.
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End the Generation Wars

Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.
Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers celebrates after an NFL game.
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Aaron Rodgers Isn’t the First Big-Name Wisconsin Anti-Vaccine Voice

But the media is treating him differently than it treated Matthew Joseph Rodermund more than a century ago.
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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.

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Primary Sources are a Vibe

Historian Melanie Newport turns to eBay.
Guardrails and a left turn on a two-lane road.

The Insidious Idea About “Safety” That Keeps Putting Us in Danger

A concept that took hold in the ’70s has haunted everything from seat belts to masks—and experts won't let it die.
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Where Did All the Public Bathrooms Go?

For decades, U.S. cities have been closing or neglecting public restrooms, leaving millions with no place to go.
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Have Crisis, Feed Kids

How a series of emergencies resulted in the school lunch programs we have today.
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'I Long Regretted Bitterly, and Still Regret That I Had Not Given It To Him'

Benjamin Franklin's writing about losing his son to smallpox is a must-read for parents weighing COVID-19 vaccines today.
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Epistemic Crises, Then And Now: The 1965 Carnegie Commission As Model Philanthropic Intervention

How the commission that led to the creation of the U.S.’s public television and radio systems can serve as a model for countering disinformation today.
Illustration of picket signs coming out of a coffin.

Picket Lines in the Graveyard

A history of cemetery workers' strikes.
Cori Bush outside the Capitol holding a sign that says "housing is a human right"

Anti-Rent Wars, Then and Now

During the 1840s, landlords tried to drive out tenants in default. The movement that rose to challenge evictions can be a model for today’s housing activists.
Illustration of the first Taoist funeral procession in Los Angeles, which was held in 1872 and was led by a Taoist priest from China. Processions were held every three years until 1903, for the gods to escort the victims through the seven layers of heaven.

Is L.A. Ready to Remember the 1871 Chinese Massacre?

Long buried, the 1871 Chinese Massacre surfaces amid a significant anniversary and a new wave of violence.
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Invisible General: How Colin Powell Conned America

From My Lai to Desert Storm to WMDs.
Young and old hands.
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The Pandemic has Exacerbated the Transformation of Grandparenthood

While our perceptions of grandparents have remained static, we've asked them to do a lot more.
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Is a Democratic Wipeout Inevitable?

Even when the president’s party passes historic legislation, voters don’t seem to care.
A 1920s undergarment shop, in black and white.

Bringing Down the Bra

Since the 19th century, women have abandoned restrictive undergarments while pursuing social and political freedom.
“Linen” postcard, depicting cars parked along a city street, in front of "Chop Suey" building, where people are standing outside.

Street Views

Photographs of empty city streets went out of fashion, but lately are coming back again. What's lost in these images of vacant streets?
A construction machine lifts giants stacks of paper money.

The U.S. Is Politically Bankrupt

For political reasons, powerful people don’t want the country to pay its bills. History shows all that could go wrong.
A woman on her knees wearing a cowboy hat with an anti-vaccination protest as the background

The Baffling Legal Standard Fueling Religious Objections to Vaccine Mandates

As anti-vax plaintiffs seek faith-based exemptions, the judicial system will renew its struggle to determine what beliefs are truly “sincerely held.”
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The Pot to Prison Pipeline

How does a plant become a crime?
A protestor wearing syringes, protesting the vaccine mandate
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Doubters’ Push for Religious Exemptions from Coronavirus Vaccination May Not Work

With all organized religions supporting vaccination, states may question the sincerity of those claiming exemptions from getting vaccinated.
FDR signing a bill

That Time America Almost Had a 30-Hour Workweek

A six-hour workday could have become the national standard during the Great Depression. Here's the story of why that didn't happen.
Engraving of the stowage plans of the slave ship Brooks, 1814.

How Transatlantic Slave Trade Shaped Epidemiology Today

Slave ships and colonial plantations created environments that enabled doctors to study how diseases spread.

The Once and Future Temp

What can the history of the temp-work industry teach us about the precarity of modern working life?

Remembering Past Lessons about Structural Racism — Recentering Black Theorists of Health and Society

A look at African-American scholars' contributions to health disparity discourse.
Donald Trump and Greg Abbott on a stage.
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The GOP is Reviving the Old History of Blaming Outsiders for Disease

But the evidence never backed it up before, and it doesn’t support such claims today either.
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The Persistent Joy of Black Mothers

Characterized throughout American history as symbols of crisis, trauma, and grief, these women reject those narratives through world-making of their own.
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A City-State for The Nation

The fallout of the January 6th riot and its effect on D.C. statehood.
Anti-vaccination pamphlets from the early 1900s

Vaccine Hesitancy in the 1920s

As Progressive Era reforms increased the power of government, organized opposition to vaccination campaigns took on a new life.

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