A person’s political identity is wrapped up in almost everything they do. Exposure to opinions from the...
Month: August 2019
The art of Florida’s Highwaymen finds a new audience. It was an era when most African Americans...
Sister Rosetta Tharpe was buried in an unmarked grave, but now she’s a YouTube sensation. More than...
When the Supreme Court exempted suburbs in the North from the kind of desegregation orders imposed in...
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest 
The Civilian Conservation Corps, Racial Segregation, and the Building of the Angeles National Forest
Obscured in the Angeles’ history is the role that all-African-American CCC camps played in the development of...
In the South, segregation reproduced the racial inequality found under slavery. By Angelina Grigoryeva and Martin Ruef...
In the lawless post-Civil War Ozarks, the vigilante Bald Knobbers took government’s place. When I was seven...
Were the Copperheads traitors or merely exercising the right to criticize the government? To what extent did...
Jack Kerouac’s study of Buddhism started in earnest in 1953 and is traditionally believed to have ended...
On the author’s bicentennial, American readers could use a dose of his unique ability to fuse realism...
When it masks a political agenda or when it justifies violence either by groups or state actors,...
England became one of the greatest producers of new Catholic relics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom, 09.26.2017, Newberry Library, republished with permission for educational,...
Nearly half of young LGBT people who are left homeless after coming out are from religious backgrounds....
An ancient Roman fable imagines a cinaedus, well-known for his brazen effeminacy, fighting heroically. Introduction On August...
Abandoned when the larger Etruscan towns struggled to meet the demands of their growing urban population and...
Two defining technologies of nineteenth-century America—railroads and photography—developed largely in parallel and brought about drastic changes in...
Exploring Britain’s railways from 1812 to 2007. 1812: The First Effective Locomotive-Powered Railway The coal-carrying Middleton Railway,...
A GPS for sixteenth-century travelers. By Mary Alexandra Agner Like many other familiar objects, the road map...
Examining how topographical views were often the result of artists touring in Britain and beyond. The lawyer Sir...
Alexander von Humboldt was one of the most influential scientists of the 19th century. His discoveries have...
Copernicus caused a revolution in contemporary knowledge by stating that science, not religion, explains how the universe...
States’ rights and slavery, while theoretically distinct, were in praxis intertwined. Here’s what a Jeffersonian analysis of...
To twenty-first-century Americans, the case against slavery may appear self-evident. However, nineteenth-century opponents of slavery faced a...
When oligarchs fill the coffers of political candidates, they neuter democracy. I keep hearing that the Democratic...
Many machinists even created their own variations of the difference engine after Babbage’s death. Introduction The 2008...
Telecommunication would prove to be a powerful agent of change. Rivers flood, some more regularly than others....
Joshua J. Mark tells of his journey to this magical ancient site that has become a symbol...
An interview with Curator Virginia Novoa Espinoza about the museum’s magnificent collection and the artistry of Costa...