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Hop Louie Restaurant in Los Angeles, California.

The Old Menus of New Chinatown

Retracing the history of Chinatown in Los Angeles using old Chinese restaurant menus as a guide.

by Aric Allen via Aricallen.com on May 28, 2019

Cars in the rubble of a burned out building in New York in the 1970s.

Fiscal Fright in NYC

A review of Kim Phillips-Fein’s "Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics."

by Michael R. Glass via The Metropole on May 15, 2019

Inside Every Foreigner

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."

by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on February 21, 2019

Armed militiamen in front of a house in Jieh, Lebanon, Jan. 18, 1976. AP

How Likely Is A New American Civil War?

Surprising lessons from Lebanon’s Conflict in the 1970s.

by Emily Whalen via Task & Purpose on October 18, 2018

The View from Cottage Hill

History bleeds in Montgomery, Alabama.

by Siddhartha Mitter via Popula on August 23, 2018

This Man is an Island

How the Key West we know today became a reflection of one man’s campy sense of style.

by Michael Adno via The Bitter Southerner on July 11, 2018

Beyond the Middle Passage

Intra-American trafficking magnified slavery’s impact.

by Robert Pollie via Inqury @ UC Santa Cruz on July 1, 2018

There Is Power in a Union

A new study overturns economic orthodoxy and shows that unions reduce inequality.

by Mike Konczal via The Nation on May 23, 2018

Reading the Soil

On the job with a pair of men who dig up bodies for a living.

by Christopher Cox via Oxford American on March 13, 2018

The Jones Act, the Obscure 1920 Shipping Regulation Strangling Puerto Rico

Protectionism and exploitation at its worst.

by Matthew Yglesias via Vox on September 27, 2017

Puerto Rico’s Long Fall from ‘Shining Star’ to The ‘Greece’ of The Caribbean

Puerto Rico's financial situation could make it the "next Greece."

by Pedro Caban via The Conversation on July 12, 2015

Hillary Clinton in Haiti

The King and Queen of Haiti

There’s no country that more clearly illustrates the confusing nexus of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Bill Clinton’s foundation than Haiti.

by Jonathan M. Katz via Politico Magazine on May 2, 2015

Ronald Reagan Jokes about the USSR

Reagan's use of jokes to openly mock the Soviet system were part of his broader Cold War strategy.

via Voices & Visions on March 28, 1988

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