Manuals used to teach “American” ways of homemaking in California c. 1915–1920 offer a rare opportunity to hear the voices of Mexican immigrant women.

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When it came to the transport of goods within local areas, it took decades for the competition among horses, electric vehicles, and gas trucks to shake out.

As women began to be welcomed into restaurants, some started catering to what they perceived as “female tastes,” largely meaning the sugary stuff

Before the New World, Europeans arrived in the Canary Islands and set the model for the enslavements, genocides, and radical ecological transformations to come.

What happens when experts position domestic violence inside a biomedical model of care?

The Fifth Amendment allows the government to buy private property for the public good. That public good was long considered the expansion of white neighborhoods.

In the wake of the derailment of a train in Ohio come renewed concerns about vinyl chloride and its use in industrial products.