Hometown Histories
The Shadow Of Chemical Valley
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Sarnia has been growing and dying in cycles for a hundred years.
Reviews
A New Citizen in a New World
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A reader would have to have blinders on to not draw parallels between the past and the present.
How Julia Skinner Does History
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I want to help people see themselves as a bridge between the past and the future.
How I Do History
How Christine Sloan Stoddard Does History
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In one way or another, storytelling has been at the crux of what I’ve done all my life.
Reviews
A Place for Berlinguer
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Enrico Berlinguer led the Italian Communist Party at the height of its power. A new exhibit at the Mattatoio grapples with his legacy.
Reviews
Harry Benjamin, the Maverick
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Through his participation in the medical community, the theater community, and his connections to literary artists, Benjamin openly questioned how medical professionals and society at large defined and categorized gender.
Shorts
Deference and Doomposting
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Ironically, Chevron deference — which the conservative Supreme Court scrapped last month — began as a conservative legal tool.
Turpentine in Time
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Each community had an overseer who supervised the operations and the commissary. He also enforced the law.
In Solidarity—And Sometimes, In Tandem
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What is possible when white activists heed the call of the Black radical vanguard.
Reviews
The Problem of Plenty
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There was nothing inevitable about the kind of gun country the U.S. is today.
Postcards
A Postcard From The First Annual Bucks County Para-Con
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America is rapidly changing into a country where we worship strange gods.
Reviews
Bankrupt Authority
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Advanced Placement: “a money-making racket that lets states off the hook for underfunding education”
Historians as Parents
Historians As Parents: Podcasting Through It
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The thing that I thought would be easiest to drop became something of a lifeline for me.
Historians as Parents
Historians As Parents: My Father’s Memory
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Whatever I write and record could be important for my children and future generations.
Revive Your Darlings
The Great Leg Show!
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Hot pants served as a sartorial riposte to the fashion industry’s relentless campaign for the midi.
Shorts
In Their Own Voices
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The New Bedford Sunday Standard-Times announced: “Indian Nuns Invade College”
