Australian Mammals, Dry Rivers, and Upending Settler Colonialism
Well-researched stories from Yale Environment 360, Public Books, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Priests and Cars in Milwaukee
The popularity of the car reshaped Catholicism in the city, forcing churches to adapt their worship practices to attract newly mobile parishioners.
Street Harassment in Victorian London
Middle- and upper-class women complained about “so-called gentlemen” who stared at them, blocked their paths, and followed them as they tried to shop.
Cell Shapes, “Poet Voice,” and Learning to Read
Well-researched stories from Aeon, Atlas Obscura, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
The Working-Class Radicalism of Mississippi’s Head Start
The Child Development Group of Mississippi created jobs and fostered the political inclusion of poor African American and white communities in the South.
Dinosaur Sounds, Universe Sounds, and White People Food
Well-researched stories from FiveThirtyEight, Bon Appetit, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
Gay Panic on Muscle Beach
The skin and strength on display at Santa Monica’s Muscle Beach aggravated American fears of gender transgressions and homosexuality.
Chilis, Personality Changes, and the Meaning of Fatwa
Well-researched stories from The Conversation, Sapiens, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.
How Los Angeles Started Its Sprawl
Victorian values and Anglo(phile) aesthetics shaped the city’s infrastructure and architecture in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
Portable Soup, Valuing Trees, and Building Utopia
Well-researched stories from Atlas Obscura, The New Inquiry, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.