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Agriculture Wars

On country music as a lens through which to trace the corporatization of American farming.

by Nick Murray via Viewpoint Magazine on March 12, 2018

New Mexico landscape painting by Marsden Hartley.

A Tramp Across America

How a Los Angeles Times editor helped create the myth of the American West.

by Greg Luther via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 19, 2018

The port of Canton

China and the American Revolution

Explaining the global impact of British-Chinese relations during the colonial period.

by Simon Hill via Journal of the American Revolution on December 7, 2017

Oil Barrels Aren't Real Anymore

Once a cask that held crude, the oil barrel is now mostly an economic concept.

by Brian Jacobson via The Atlantic on September 8, 2017

Man reading paper about gas rationing in front of a sign that reads "sorry no gasoline."

1973 – The Year That Changed Everything

The story of the oil shocks of 1973 and how they continue to shape the world we live in today.

via BackStory on January 9, 2015

Picture of a truck stop.

Every Which Way but Regulated: The “Free Market” Trucking Industry

No longer home to the open-road outlaws and concrete cowboys of the ’70s, becoming a trucker is now the equivalent of operating a sweatshop on wheels thanks to deregulation.

by Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones via Los Angeles Review of Books on November 25, 2014

Lithograph of the reservoir of the Manhattan Water Works in 1825.

Corporations in the Early Republic

An explanation of the Manhattan Company, a bank disguised as a municipal water corporation that helped to transform Early Republican politics.

via BackStory on June 20, 2014

A man at a Tea Party rally in 2010, dressed in colonial clothes and standing in front of a Don't Treat On Me flag with his fist raised.

Teed Off

Did the 2010 Tea Party Movement really have anything in common with 1773? What did the history of populism suggest about the Tea Party's future?

via BackStory on May 21, 2010

A soldier on a tank, aiming an M-16 rifle.

M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story

Why the rifles jammed.

by James Fallows via The Atlantic on June 1, 1981

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