Still Bringing the State Back In Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration
Mass incarceration has been a project of state building. Accordingly, when I teach my students…
Mass incarceration has been a project of state building. Accordingly, when I teach my students…
With the recent release of the Trump administration’s tax plan, the notion of “tax reform”…
We are in a golden age of beer. For example, in the small upstate New…
In 1962, with powers vested by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), Kentucky licensed a…
From articles in the liberal press to histories of the “Frontiers of Wealth” during “America’s…
On a warm night in June 1845, two inmates recently escaped from the newly opened…
Donald Trump can claim many firsts as president. He’s the first billionaire president to have…
Not long before her death in 1804, Margaret Shippen Arnold (better known as “Peggy”) lamented…
Crossposted from The American Historian Online. By the Civil War’s last weary winter, Confederate Richmond,…
During the Spring of 2017, the U.S. airline industry became the target of widespread public…