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Generating the Age of Revolutions
Age of Revolutions was happy to interview Nathan Perl-Rosenthal about his new book, entitled 'The Age of Revolutions and the Generations Who Made It.'
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Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
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Bryan A. Banks
via
Age of Revolutions
on
March 11, 2024
Why Generational Thinking Isn't Bull
Reflections on Pavement, Nirvana, the very meaning of history, and the end of neoliberalism.
by
Charles Petersen
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Making History
on
October 8, 2023
The “Dazed and Confused” Generation
People my age are described as baby boomers, but our experiences call for a different label altogether.
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Bruce Handy
via
The New Yorker
on
March 2, 2023
End the Generation Wars
Lazy assumptions about young and old cloud our politics.
by
James Chappel
via
The New Republic
on
November 15, 2021
It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations”
From boomers to zoomers, the concept gets social history all wrong.
by
Louis Menand
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The New Yorker
on
October 7, 2021
Which Generation Controls the Senate?
A visual breakdown of the U.S. Senate by age.
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Will Donnell
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wcd.fyi
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January 18, 2021
Mythologizing Fatherhood
Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.
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Ralph LaRossa
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National Council On Family Relations
on
March 1, 2009
Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads
As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.
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Casey N. Cep
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The New Yorker
on
April 29, 2024
The Chronicler of Asian America: On Photographer and Activist Corky Lee
“We await our moment, in pursuit of the picture that Corky envisaged, a portrait of a community that is too large and too brilliant.”
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Hua Hsu
via
Literary Hub
on
March 28, 2024
Why the World of Typewriter Collectors Splits Down the Middle When These Machines Come Up for Sale
In this new hobby, I found so many stories.
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Mark Lawrence Schrad
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Slate
on
March 16, 2024
Marronage & Police Abolition
Marronage as a placemaking practice, pointing to histories that shape and inspire abolitionist struggles.
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Elijah Levine
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Celeste Winston
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Edge Effects
on
March 14, 2024
What James Baldwin Saw
A documentary that follows the writer’s late-in-life journey to the South chronicles his vision for Black politics in a post–Civil Rights era world.
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Kelli Weston
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The Nation
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March 5, 2024
Issei Poetry Between the World Wars
The rich history of Japanese-language literature challenges assumptions about what counts as U.S. art.
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Kenji C. Liu
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High Country News
on
March 1, 2024
How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors
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Joshua Kagavi
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Smithsonian
on
February 29, 2024
Living Black in Lakewood
Rewriting the history and future of an iconic suburb.
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Becky M. Nicolaides
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OUPblog
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January 17, 2024
Descendants of Black Civil War Heroes Wear Their Heritage With Pride
A bold new photographic project asks modern-day Americans to recreate portraits of their 19th-century ancestors in painstakingly accurate fashion.
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Jennie Rothenburg Gritz
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Smithsonian
on
December 13, 2023
The 19th-Century Novel That Inspired a Communist Utopia on the American Frontier
The Icarians thought they could build a paradise, but their project was marked by failure almost from the start.
by
John Last
via
Smithsonian
on
November 28, 2023
Fish Hacks
Often dismissed as a “trash fish,” the porgy is an anchor of Black maritime culture.
by
Jayson Maurice Porter
via
Distillations
on
November 17, 2023
A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
"African Founders" corrects some of the ideological uses of Black American history.
by
Ken Masugi
via
Law & Liberty
on
November 8, 2023
The Trouble with Ancestry
Two family histories by Americans connected to Europe’s twentieth century through their fascist grandfathers seek to occupy the void between history and memory.
by
Fintan O’Toole
via
New York Review of Books
on
August 31, 2023
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