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Research Articles
The curious history of a World War I law and its longterm consequences for American economic warfare and statecraft.
Never before used Motion Picture Project files shed light on the rise of liberal humanist thought in the 1950s.
- Boycott Gulf! Angolan Oil and the Black Power Roots of American Anti-Apartheid Organizing, R. Joseph Parrott
How activists linked the domestic concerns of African Americans with the anti-imperial revolutions of Southern Africa in the 1970s.
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Forum: Fear and Loathing
Under what conditions have scares, moral panics, and the “paranoid style” thrived in the modern United States? What impact have they had on the nation’s policies, institutions, and everyday life?
- Rage against the Administrative State, Landon Storrs
- The Ingredients for “Voter Fraud” Conspiracies, George Derek Musgrove
- National (In)security and the Immigration Act of 1996, María Cristina García
- Sex, Art, and Moral Panic, Anthony Petro
- Fringe Paranoia Goes Mainstream, Kathryn S. Olmsted
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Q&A: The Debate Table with Eric Rauchway and Ian Tyrrell
Deliberations about American exceptionalism.
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The Soapbox
Seeing Like a Settler Colonial State, Margaret D. Jacobs.
Recognizing Indigenous peoples upends longstanding narratives about modern political history.
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Take Three: Prayer
One modern American practice. Three different perspectives
- Invocation in the Age of Eisenhower, Darren Dochuk
- Worshipping in Concert with the World, Hillary Kaell
- Kneeling for Hollywood, Melani McAlister
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Into the Stacks
In Search of the Black Women’s History Archive, Ashley D. Farmer
New books that pioneer ways to do more with less evidence.