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History of North America and the United States
Christians, Globalisation, and Child Sponsorship Plans
Over the nineteenth century, thousands of North Americans and Europeans paid to sponsor and rename foreign children in mission stations across the world. Hillary Kaell discusses the “otherworldly” in histories of global relations.
Sidelining Selma’s Segregationists
George Lewis discusses the idea of segregationists being “sidelined” in US history, and the role that public memory…
Harry Clark Bentley
Clifford Putney discusses the life story of Harry Clark Bentley, a prominent accountant and educator in Massachusetts. Bentley founded…
American Health Crisis
Martin Halliwell discusses contemporary public health crises and the future of public health in the United States. Martin…
Almost Citizens
Sam Erman discusses the story of how the United States denied Puerto Ricans full citizenship following annexation of the island in 1898.
Microenterprise, Welfare Reform, the Clintons, and Liberal Forms of Neoliberalism
Lily Geismer discusses the roots of Microfinance and how it expands the definition of neoliberalism with reference to…
Lincoln’s Tragic Pragmatism
John Burt discusses whether a liberal political system can be used to mediate moral disputes. And if not, is violence inevitable?
The Imperial Irish
Mark McGowan discusses the development and fraying of interfaith and intercultural relationships between Irish Catholics, French Canadian Catholics,…
James and His Striped Velvet Pantaloons
The striped velvet pantaloons of James, an enslaved man in the South Carolina upcountry, might not seem like…
Powering Up Canada
Ruth Sandwell discusses how various sources of power, fuel, and energy have sustained Canadians over time and played…
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