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Syringes with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on a table

Having Vaccines Alone Isn’t Enough to Defeat Covid-19

Distributing them equally is key to defeating the coronavirus.

by Joyce Chaplin via Made By History on February 23, 2021

Political cartoon depicting the menace of monopolies and trusts (1899)

Degeneration Nation

How a Gilded Age best seller shaped American race discourse.

by Adam Morris via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 14, 2020

1912 political cartoon of the Aldrich Plan depicted as an octopus with tentacles on a bank, a factory, and a farm while spitting coins into the NYSC.

A Popular History of the Fed

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

by Noam Maggor, Anton Jäger via Phenomenal World on October 1, 2020

The Long Roots of Corporate Irresponsibility

Nicholas Lemann’s history of 20th century corporations, Transaction Man, shows how an unrelenting faith in the market and profit doomed the American economy.

by Rick Perlstein via The Nation on March 17, 2020

Leland Stanford, oil painting by French artist Ernest Meissonier, 1881. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Was Leland Stanford a ‘Magnanimous’ Philanthropist or a ‘Thief, Liar, and Bigot?’

The railroad baron and governor of California was starkly contradictory and infamously disruptive.

by Roland De Wolk via What It Means to Be American on October 17, 2019

Milton Friedman.

Milton Friedman Was Wrong

The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.

by Eric Posner via The Atlantic on August 22, 2019

Lessons From the Gilded Age

America today has a lot in common with that bygone era of monopolies and gross inequality. But will the country respond similarly?

by Sarah Jones via The New Republic on June 13, 2018

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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