Tag: Society

Casual Discourse: Zeinab Badawi’s An African History of Africa

Remedial Case Studies: Voting Rights, or Voting Privileges?

Virginia Minor, aborted pioneer of women's right to vote 50 years before the 19th Amendment

Revolutionary Cuisine? Memory, Convenient History, and the Rise of the “Modern Restaurant”

The remains of a Roman thermopolium, or street kitchen, at Pompeii

Never “Just Clothes”: Ryan Coogler’s Sinners and Menswear in the 1930’s

Mounds’ Eye View: Searching for Power of Place Along the Black Warrior River

Misdiagnosing the Problem: Stefanos Geroulanos’s The Invention of Prehistory

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“Let Them Enforce It:” Ignoring Supreme Court Decisions in American History

Samuel Worcester, the principled missionary who endured imprisonment and torture to spark one of the most famously-ignored Supreme Court opinions in American history

Inconvenient Suits: A Writ to Cure All Ills?

Making History, Marking History IX: The Historical Anniversaries of 2026

Battle of Panipat, fought 500 years ago today, April 20, 1526. Illustration from the Baburnama, a 1598 epic poetic recounting of the deeds of the founder of the Mughal Empire, Babur.