Crime in the City: American Revolution
Carp looks at violence in Revolutionary America.
Brown v. Board of Education
Klarman looks at the backlash created by Brown v. Board of Education.
A Few Questions For Philip Jenkins
Philip Jenkins author of God’s Continent answers some questions for OUP.
Mother’s Marathon
Joyce Antler, author of You Never Call! You Never Write: A History of the Jewish Mother, is the Samuel Lane Professor of American Jewish History and Culture at Brandeis University. Yesterday we posted a Q and A with her daughter, comedian, Lauren Antler. Last week Joyce wrote about Passover. Today she weighs in on the […]
Women’s History Month: An Interpretation of Feminism in Africa
For Women’s History Month we turn to the AASC to englighten us about Women in Africa.
The Most Influential Americans: The Revolutionaries
Based on The Atlantic’s Top 100 Most Influential Americans of All Time list, we look at George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
Native Sons of Liberty
Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the editor in chief of The Oxford African American Studies Center. In this New York Times op-ed, Dr. Gates uses a little-known story about the Revolutionary War to demonstrate the role of black patriots in the birth of our nation: ON June 11, 1823, a man named John Redman […]
Schooling America: Adjustment
Lucy Sprague Mitchell and Carleton Washburne, embody the Adjustment period from 1920 to 1954. Mitchell with her friend Caroline Pratt founded the City and Country School in New York City as her children entered school in the 1920s. Mitchell had tried unsuccessfully to break the formalism of the New York City schools, and having inherited family money, she decided to establish a school of her own design. Its 1922 program of arts, play, shop, rest, as well as a little reading, is revealed in this chart showing the “Greenwich Village School Program, 1922 -1923.”
Schooling America: Assimilation
Patricia Graham provides historical context to today’s battles over public education.
Why we allow gas stations to overcharge us
Few costs infuriate the modern consumer more than the price at the pump. Type “fuel price riots” into Google for a list of fatal incidents from Yemen to Indonesia. US pundits have been raging against “price gouging” in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s damage to the energy infrastructure, while in Britain a fuel protest never […]