Shorts
The Final Frontier of Civil-Military Relations
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The Federation’s structure creates tension between military and civilian leadership.
Shorts
Anxieties, Real and Imagined
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Khan was a product of and advocate for selective breeding, the ultimate form of population control.
Shorts
Man’s Best Friend In Space
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They’re cute and lovable, but there’s something just not quite right about them.
Shorts
2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
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A companion list for lit studies scholars.
How I Do History
How Lynne Calamia Does History
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“People are drawn to personal stories and transformations.”
Contingent Book & Article Lists
2024 Contingent Book List
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When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
Hometown Histories
The Treaty on the Severn River
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Baltimore is Native American land — that’s the first thing I want you to know.
Reviews
What The New Right Learned In School
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Essential reading for anyone interested in higher education or Republican politics, either today or in the past.
Hometown Histories
Pilgrims In A Holyland
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Local farmers have long been connected to a much larger capitalist system.
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”
