Figure 1: St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C., one of only two mental asylums ever operated by the U.S. federal government (Courtesy of the Library of Congress) By Jeremy Peschard In recent years, politicians in the United States have paid significant attention to two major political issues: firstly, the increased number of…
Article image courtesy of Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative, https://justseeds.org/graphic/stop-cop-city/ By Dan Berger * Published in partnership with The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project. On August 29th, the same Georgia grand jury that indicted Donald…
Article image courtesy of chroniclingamerica.loc.gov By S. Ani Mukherji I. Unsettling Beauty Where Little Fiery Gizzard Creek enters the Grundy Lakes (Photograph by S. Ani Mukherji) “…a historical materialist views…
Anonymous, It's Going Down By Benjamin Stumpf Popular resistance to Atlanta’s “Cop City” is growing. The proposed 85-acre police militarization compound, whose construction would destroy the city’s valued Weelaunee/South…
By Iva Peša Editor's Note: This lesson plan expands upon the Reflections piece Anthropocene Narratives of Living with Resource Extraction in Africa by Iva Peša in…
By Romina A. Green Rioja When I enthusiastically opened my social media apps the Sunday morning after Pedro Pascal’s SNL performance to read articles and…
by Rachel Ida Buff American HistoryMichael S. Harper Those four black girls blown upin that Alabama churchremind me of five hundredmiddle passage blacks,in a net,…
By Emmaia Gelman The Colleyville synagogue incident started out feeling like another in the litany of anguishing attacks on Jewish spaces. But almost immediately, it…
By Benjamin Dangl Chicha and ritual had a central role in what was one of the most consequential meetings in Andean history: the first encounter between…
by Sana Khan My interest in soft powers began somewhat unusually: while researching the Bolshevik feminist Alexandra Kollontai as an overzealous seventeen-year-old historian. Encouraged by my history…