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Jerald Podair

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What the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Can Teach Us Fifty Years Later

Fitzgerald sank in a 1975 storm; Lightfoot’s song made it iconic. The wreck came to symbolize the Midwest’s industrial decline.

by Jerald Podair via Clio and the Contemporary on November 10, 2025
Oh, We Knew Agnew

On Spiro Agnew's lasting legacy.

by Jerald Podair, Zach Messitte, Charles J. Holden via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 27, 2023
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There Is a Precedent for Trump’s Indictment: Spiro Agnew

Spiro Agnew was the progenitor of Trump’s politics. He also resigned from office and accepted a plea deal to avoid jail time.

by Jerald Podair via Made By History on April 10, 2023

Wrecked: The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Sinking of the American Economy

Jerald Podair, Thomas Nelson

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A large sports stadium surrounded by the city

Counterhistories of the Sport Stadium

As large spaces where different sectors of the city converge, stadiums are sites of social and political struggle.

by Frank Andre Guridy via Public Books on December 30, 2020

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