Tag: U.S. History

March 4, 2020

The Global History of the Nineteenth Amendment

By Mona L. Siegel

“A stunning retelling of the Great War’s aftermath and how women rose up at the war’s end to demand a different and better world. Siegel’s evocative prose transports us back in time and around the world as women from east,...

November 30, 2018

Book Excerpt! Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question (introduction)

“Bénédicte Boisseron’s Afro-Dog hones in, acutely and in detail, on the often-unhappy convergence of ‘animal’ and ‘black’ in current and historical thought, deftly dismantling their rhetorical obfuscations while sacrificing neither ‘the animal’ nor ‘the black.’ Instead, she calls for attending to human-animal...

November 28, 2018

Book Excerpt! The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S. -Mexico Border (introduction)

“Anchored in a critical revisionist history of the Southwest borderlands and the social construction of ‘the Hispanic gang,’ The Gang Paradox offers a multidisciplinary analysis of the origins, composition, and cultural significance of gangs as a site of group identity. ” ~ Cynthia...

November 27, 2018

Q&A: Robert J. Durán on The Gang Paradox

“The Gang Paradox tells a story about the Mexican American experience on the border, including gangs and institutional reactions to them. In clear, descriptive, and refreshingly reflexive language Durán argues that the reality of gangs is far from its media image,...

February 24, 2015

An Interview with Doug Rossinow, author of The Reagan Era

“We still live in the world Reagan and Reaganites made.”—Doug Rossinow The following is an interview with Doug Rossinow, author of The Reagan Era: A History of the 1980s. Question: Were the 1980s really “the Reagan era”? Is it possible...

December 8, 2011

Interview with John T. E. Richardson, author of Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island

The following is an interview with John T. E. Richardson, author of Howard Andrew Knox: Pioneer of Intelligence Testing at Ellis Island Question: Who is the subject of your book? John T.E. Richardson: Howard Andrew Knox was one of the...

November 22, 2011

Andrew Smith Reveals the Truth About Thanksgiving

In the chapter “Giving Thanks” from his book Eating History: Thirty Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine, Andrew Smith reveals that “the whole idea that the Pilgrims were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving in America was, in fact...