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Alex Sayf Cummings

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How Louis Ziskind Helped Deinstitutionalize Mental Healthcare

A community health center in Los Angeles that sought to get patients back into the community.

by Alex Sayf Cummings via Nursing Clio on September 4, 2024
How Machines Came to Speak (and How to Shut Them Up)

On the intertwined history of free speech law and media technology.

by Alex Sayf Cummings via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on September 24, 2023
The Monitor: The Punk Album that Predicted Our Politics

How Titus Andronicus drew on Civil War lore to frame contemporary social divides.

by Alex Sayf Cummings via Tropics of Meta on November 4, 2017
What Did the Three-Fifths Compromise Actually Do?

It was motivated in part by white Southerners' concerns about taxes, but ended up being all about maintaining their political power.

by Alex Sayf Cummings via Tropics of Meta on April 17, 2015

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Ideas of the PMC

A review of three new books that in various ways track the rise of the "Professional Managerial Class."

by Michael J. Kramer via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on March 6, 2022

Was El Monte Really Founded by White Pioneers?

A new book explores the history of the people who have been written out of the L.A. suburb's longtime origin story.

by Steve Chiotakis via KCRW on June 24, 2020

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