united states history

We The People: Post-Preamble

by Vasi BjeletichPosted on March 15, 2024March 11, 2024

WE THE PEOPLE is a flawed realization of the intended purpose of government, allowing us to call into question not only the mechanisms through which it operates but also to critically think about the true intentions of the founding fathers.

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Gallatin’s Failure to Protect Pro-Palestine Voices

by AnonymousPosted on November 2, 2023November 20, 2023

I am writing this article anonymously, at a dangerous moment in academia where students and faculty are censored, doxxed, blacklisted, and threatened for taking a public stance on Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.

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Image of San Francisco Chronicle print article from Tuesday, April 4, 1899. The newspaper excerpt image contains the classifieds section of the paper.

Female Irregularities

by Audrey HuiPosted on December 13, 2022December 12, 2022

"Addie—it's about time we heard from or saw something of you. Stella." Imaginings from the Archives: the Classifieds

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A Note for the Archive

by Katherine LeisterPosted on December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

When I began my time at an early twentieth-century historic house museum, I was expecting to find a lot of things—furniture, yellowing diaries, shelves and shelves of vintage clothes—but I never imagined I would find my grandmother.

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From Little Tokyo to Bronzeville and Back Again

by Niulan WrightPosted on December 2, 2021November 29, 2021

How the Creation of Social Stratification Between Japanese and Black Americans in Los Angeles After World War II Played a Role in the “Model Minority” Ideology

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Queering Geographies

by Ben CrestoPosted on November 11, 2021March 23, 2022

A Sociospatial Account of the Urban “Gayborhood”

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Boppy’s Year in Vietnam

by Caroline MeredithPosted on November 9, 2021

Tom Casey’s letters from Vietnam are not merely a historical artifact, but a bildungsroman, the story of a man discovering the limits of his duty and the faults of his country.

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The Morbid Nature of Tasers

by Ella RamirezPosted on November 8, 2021November 8, 2021

Why is the use of tasers and stun guns so normalized among urban women? These weapons have been studied in the context of policing, but very little research has been dedicated to the individual use of tasers for self-defense.

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The Pill

by Catherine DevinePosted on November 5, 2021November 3, 2021

I soon joined the club of licit pink-pill slipping girls myself, along with the 82 percent of teen birth-control users who rely on the drug for purposes, at least in part, other than pregnancy prevention.

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What’s Underneath

by Kaela AaltoPosted on November 2, 2021

A Psychogeological Analysis of Lower Manhattan

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The House That Cotton Built

by Aliya JonesPosted on October 29, 2021

There’s stillness: the whispers of trees and soft winds that make them heard. They’re talking to us; we’ve come to listen. Plantations are vast, empty, filled with invisible souls and their all-too-audible cries; these acres are not that.

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The Continual Exploitation of New Arrivals

by Sofía SanchezPosted on October 12, 2021September 13, 2022

The economic system that dominates the United States is dependent on one commodity: mass cheap labor.

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How Computing Became Masculine in the Cold War

by Lauren BalserPosted on September 24, 2021

Unlike factory or shipyard work, for which there was a masculine precedent prior to the Rosie the Riveter-era of feminism, there was no set computing culture prior to the beginning of the Cold War because the industry did not exist. What changed?

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Cold War Counting

by Ella ChapmanPosted on September 23, 2021

The development of modern data-collection technology enabled scientists, politicians, and historians alike to employ quantitative methods in historical analyses—and allowed them to purposely shape the Cold War narrative.

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