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From Food Deserts to Supermarket Redlining

Connecting the dots between discriminatory housing policies in the 1930s and urban food insecurity today.

by Jerry Shannon via Atlanta Studies on August 14, 2018

Printing food stamps.

Why American Policy is Leaving Millions Hungry

Instead of trying to eliminate hunger, we continue to talk about personal responsibility.

by Rachel Louise Moran via Made By History on August 7, 2018

An engraving of a Native American group featuring a chief speaking to a group of men as women prepare cassina next to him and Europeans spectate on the other side.

The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries

Yaupon tea, a botanical cousin to yerba maté, is now almost unknown.

by Ben Richmond via Atlas Obscura on March 28, 2018

The Flavour Revolutionary

Henry Theophilus Finck sought to transform the modern United States, by appealing to Americans' tastebuds.

by Nadia Berenstein via Aeon on December 19, 2017

How our Appetite for Cheap Food Drove Rural America to Trump

Consumer demand and government policy decimated rural America.

by Benjamin Davison via Made By History on June 30, 2017

African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century

An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.

by Leah Douglas via The Nation on June 26, 2017

Bitter Harvest

The fear and hysteria that led to Japanese interment during World War II was manufactured for corporate profit.

by A. V. Krebs via Washington Post on February 2, 1992

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