The Treaty of Ghent: Annotated
On December 24, 1814, representatives of the United States and the British Empire met to sign the Treaty of Ghent that, once ratified, would end another war between them. The...
Children’s Fairy Tales and Feminine Beauty
...professor Liz Grauerholz looked into the prevalence of what they call “the feminine beauty ideal” in fairy tales. “Children’s fairy tales, which emphasize such things as women’s passivity and beauty,...
Moral Panics: A Syllabus
...(The Briggs Initiative): Annotated Liz Tracey October 28, 2022 Proposition 6, better known as the Briggs Initiative, was the first attempt to restrict the rights of lesbian and gay Americans...
Proposition 6 (The Briggs Initiative): Annotated
The history of LGBTQ+ rights in the United States can be seen as cyclical, as “just a little bit of History repeating.” Progress is made, then those who oppose this...
The Pardon of President Nixon: Annotated
It is difficult to summarize the singular period of history between the June 1972 break-in at Democratic National Committee headquarters and the August 1974 resignation of President Richard Nixon. Briefly,...
The Voting Rights Act 1965: Annotated
On August 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, legislation that sought to remove the discriminatory obstacles placed by states and localities to prevent Black residents...
Teaching Comics: A Syllabus
...the Bechdel test, second-wave feminists looked at sexist portrayals in Saturday Morning cartoons There’s a Mascot for That? Cute COVID-19 Education Liz Tracey April 6, 2020 How to get people...
Zombies of the Slaughterhouse
...and the environment are connected,” it seems the jungle will only keep on growing. You Might Like Walking Dead: The Science Behind the Zombies Liz Tracey November 3, 2014 Walking...
Plant of the Month: Black-eyed Pea
...and economic stability. But, as agroecologist Liz Carlisle reminds us, for many people, this understanding of the black-eyed pea is anything but new; as she notes in a recent book,...
Mumbai, Where Indian Ocean Diasporas and Cosmopolitanisms Meet
...that Liz Bondi notes is central to some analyses of emotional geographies. One Parsi woman, interviewed by the author in 2019, serves her faith community as a medium of the...