Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent
Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the Gilded Age United States, using the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to start over as her guide.
Wardship and the Welfare State
Mary Klann discusses the ideological dimensions and practical intersections of public policy and Native American citizenship, Indian wardship, and social welfare rights after World War II.
On the Contributions of Colin Clark to Fisheries Economics
Gordon Munro discusses the contributions of Colin Clark
The Civil War Diary of Emma Mordecai
Melissa R. Klapper discusses the wartime experiences of a Jewish woman in the Confederate South
Optimum numbering and sizing of infiltration-based water sensitive urban design technologies in South Australia
The existing drainage systems consider storm water as a waste product and its main focus is on collecting the runoff from urban catchments as quickly as possible and discharging it into the nearby outlets. Faisal Ahammed discusses the Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) technology, which can be implemented in the urban catchments to minimise the negative hydrological impacts due to urbanisation.
Biophilia and Salutogenesis as restorative design approaches in healthcare architecture
M. Shokry Abdelaal demonstrates the needs for developing the design of our hospitals to play a tangible role in the restoration of their patients.
Poverty, Human Rights and the Cost of Living crisis
Luke Graham evaluates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in addressing the structural causes of poverty
Enemies Among Us
John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America’s selective relocation and internment of its own citizens and enemy aliens, as well as the effects of internment on those who experienced it.
Filipino American Sporting Cultures: The Racial Politics of Play
Constancio R. Arnaldo, Jr discusses the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino Americans
Redface: Race, Performance, and Indigeneity
Bethany Hughes discusses the character of the “Stage Indian” in American theater and its racial and political impact
When Women Ruled the Pacific: Power and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Tahiti and Hawai‘i
Joy Schulz highlights four Polynesian women rulers who held enormous domestic and foreign power and expertly governed their people amid shifting loyalties, outright betrayals, and the ascendancy of imperial racism.
Titus Quinctius Flamininus’ “Italian triumph”
Michael Fronda discusses Titus Quinctius Flamininus’ “Italian triumph,” an early example of accelerated Roman-Italian interaction seen in a variety of spheres
Raid and Reconciliation
Brandon Morgan examines the story of Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, providing new insights into the Mexican Revolution and the connections between violence and modernization.
Policing & The Problem of Physical Restraint
The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits unreasonable “seizures” and thus renders unlawful police use of excessive force. Steven Koh discusses the role of police putting “hands on” a civilian and its potential to escalate toward lethal physical encounters.
Lincoln and the Jews
Jonathan Sarna argues that Abraham Lincoln’s warm relationships with Jews not only broadened Lincoln personally, but, in effect, broadened America.
Forbidden
Jordan D. Rosenblum historicizes the emergence of the pig as a key symbol of Jewish identity
Maricas: Queer Cultures and State Violence in Argentina and Spain, 1942–1982
Javier Fernández-Galeano discusses the many ways queer communities and individuals in Argentina and Spain fought against violence, rejected pathologization, and contested imposed, denigrating categorization.
Reasonableness and Risk: Right and Responsibility in the Law of Torts
The law of torts is concerned with what we owe to one another in the way of obligations not to interfere with, or impair, each other’s urgent interests as we go about our lives in civil society. Gregory Keating argues that tort law’s primary obligations address a domain of basic justice and that its rhetoric of reasonableness implies a distinctive morality of mutual right and responsibility.
International Human Rights Law and Destitution
Luke Graham explores destitution from the perspective of international human rights law and, more specifically, economic, social, and cultural rights.
Towards a Polemical Ethics: Between Heidegger and Plato
Gregory Fried provides a novel way of understanding politics and ethical life he calls a polemical ethics, which mediates between finitude and transcendence by engaging in constructive confrontation with both traditions and other persons.
Sociology Meets Memoir: An Exploration of Narrative and Method
Margaret Nelson explores how sociologists can approach memoir in their writing, research, and in the classroom
The Last Frontier: Fair Procedures in Informal Administrative Adjudication
The federal government engages in massive amounts of informal adjudication. Michael Asimow discusses the highly diverse world of federal informal adjudication and surveys the procedural requirements imposed on it by due process and federal statutes.
City Time: On Being Sentenced to Rikers Island
David Campbell provides an insider perspective of daily life in New York City’s most notorious house of correction
Goodbye Religion
Ryan Cragun and Jesse Smith discusses why so many are leaving religion, and what that means for American society
Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago
Jason Springs discusses restorative justice as a form of moral and spiritual practice with the capacity to transform injustice
Stories from Langley
Edward Mickolus, a former CIA intelligence officer, reveals the breadth of career opportunities available at the CIA
Investing in deflation, inflation, and stagflation regimes
Guido Baltussen discusses asset class and factor premiums across inflationary regimes.
Lives and legacies of people with intellectual disability
Kenneth Keith provides a new way to view the personal and cultural contributions of people with ID.
Leave While the Party’s Good
Lee C. Kluck tells the full and colorful story of Harry Dalton, many consider the first modern baseball executive.
Beach Politics
Setha Low discusses how elites restrict access to public beaches around the globe
The Brethren: A Story of Faith and Conspiracy in Revolutionary America
Brendan McConville provides an account of a Revolutionary-era conspiracy in which a band of farmers opposed to military conscription and fearful of religious persecution plotted to kill the governor of North Carolina.
Toxic Sexual Politics
Melina Packer discusses the field of toxicology from a feminist and antiracist perspective
The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place
A city and, more generally, any locality, is conceived as the areal expression of the interests of some land-based elite. Such an elite is seen to profit through the increasing intensification of the land use of the area in which its members hold a common interest. Harvey Moltoch discusses the relevance of growth to the interests of various social groups.
البيوفيليا والسلوتيجنيسكمبادئ اساسية للتصميم الترميمي لعمارة المنشأت الطبية
يوضح محمد ش. عبد العال الحاجة إلى تطوير تصميم مستشفياتنا لتلعب دورًا ملموسًا في إعادة تأهيل مرضاهم.
With the God of Battles I can Destroy All Such Villains
Michael Gonzalez discusses war and the influence of Islam on provincial Spanish and Mexican California between 1769 and 1846.