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'Housing Is Everybody’s Problem'

The forgotten crusade of Morris Milgram.
by Amanda Kolson Hurley via Places Journal on October 10, 2017

The Rise and Fall of the “Sellout”

The history of the epithet, from its rise among leftists and jazz critics and folkies to its recent fall from favor.
by Franz Nicolay via Slate on July 28, 2017

A Billionaires’ Republic

A new book argues that the Constitution’s framers believed that vast concentrations of wealth were the enemy of democracy.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via The Nation on July 11, 2017

Why Are America’s Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?

Suburban corporate campuses have isolated themselves by design from the communities their products were supposed to impact.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on April 8, 2016
Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" poster.
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Women at Work: A History

Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.
via BackStory on February 6, 2015
Vintage advertisment for Indian Land on sale, by the U.S. Department of the Interior

Universalizing Settler Liberty

America is best understood not as the first post-colonial republic, but as an expansionist nation built on slavery and native expropriation.
by Aziz Rana, Nikhil Pal Singh via Jacobin on August 4, 2014
Men standing outside a store with a sign supporting the WPA in the window.

The Voluntarism Fantasy

Conservatives dream of returning to a world where private charity fulfilled all public needs. But that world never existed, and we're better for it.
by Mike Konczal via Democracy Journal on March 17, 2014
Scabby the Rat

The History of Scabby the Rat

The most visible symbol of a labor movement that isn't dead yet, that is willing to fight, not just make backroom deals.
by Sarah Jaffe, Molly Crabapple via Vice on March 7, 2013
Pete Seeger.

American Dreamers

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.
by William Hogeland via Boston Review on May 1, 2008

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