What Democrats Can Learn from America’s First Black Voters
After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.
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Locked out: how a 19th century land grant is still undermining First Nations rights on Vancouver Island
On Vancouver Island, privately owned forest poses a unique challenge for the Hul’qumi’num Treaty Group, with territories ...
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An Old City archeologist writes an opera for a murdered 19th century woman
Composer Melissa Dunphy discovered an unsolved murder at her home from 144 years ago. She brings her back to life with “Alice Tierney.” ...
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The World’s Richest Man in the First Half of the 19th Century Was a Chinese Merchant Who Lent Money to American Millionaires
If we asked who the wealthiest person in the world was in the first half of the 19th century, many would likely think of ...
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Women's Role in Prohibition: From Temperance to the 21st Amendment
The Prohibition era in the United States, spanning from 1920 to 1933, is often characterized by speakeasies, gangsters, and ...
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19th-century paintings show first hints of post-industrial climate change
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Hundreds of 19th-century skulls collected in the name of medical science tell a story of who mattered and who didn’t
Marked with numbers, demographic information and provenance – though not name – these skulls tell a story of racist ...
How the Ivy League Broke America
The system is rigged: Students from families in the top 1 percent of earners were 77 times more likely to attend an Ivy ...
Trailblazing 19th-century Gloucester woman honored for keeping Twin Lights lit on Thacher Island off Rockport
Maria Herrick Bray lived a life of activity and influence through the second half of the 19th century and opening decades of the 20th, a time when most women had little opportunity to make their mark ...
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The Meaning of the First World War
World War I gave rise to a heated century-long debate about its causes. In Disputing Disaster, Perry Anderson surveys this ...
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Dr. Victoria Abrahamyan receives SAS Outstanding Dissertation Award
The Society for Armenian Studies (SAS) is pleased to announce that Dr. Victoria Abrahamyan has been chosen to receive the SAS ...
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The Battle on Lake Geneva—Mises vs. the Statists at Mont Pelerin
The original Mont Pelerin Society meeting in 1947 featured Ludwig von Mises, whose warnings about the dangers of socialism ...