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Jane S. Smith

A Blacklist Education: American History, a Family Mystery, and a Teacher Under Fire

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Book cover with the title "A Blacklist Education" written on a black and red background.

Legacies of Teacher Persecution and Resistance

Historian Jane Smith understands her childhood differently after discovering that her father had been pushed out of his profession during the Red Scare.

by Joan Wallach Scott via Academe on September 9, 2025

The author and other children picketing the Board of Education in protest of her father's firing.

A General Air of Anxiety

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

by Joan Wallach Scott via Boston Review on September 10, 2025

A comic overview of vaccine development production trials to deliveries.

The Last Time a Vaccine Saved America

Sixty-six years ago, people celebrated the polio vaccine by embracing in the streets. Our vaccine story is both more extraordinary and more complicated.

by Howard Markel via The New Yorker on April 12, 2021

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