Whether it’s based on a kernel of truth or pure fiction, moral panics are incredibly powerful. They strengthen calls for increased policing and harsher sentences, fuel political campaigns that harness baseless fears to motivate voters; Read more
It’s the spring of 1436 in Sandwich, a little port town on the Kent coast. The town council orders every household to go down to the beach, collect rocks, and pile them up next to Read more
Plessy v. Ferguson, was decided in May of 1896, by a vote of seven to one. It held that the State of Louisiana could lawfully require railroads to provide what the statute called “equal but Read more
In 1830, afraid that white missionaries were aiding the Cherokee in their effort to resist giving up their lands, the Georgia state government made it illegal for white people to live within Cherokee Nation territory Read more
In 1942, the U.S. government rounded up citizens and forced them into concentration camps. Between the two countries, over 140,000 people were removed from their home and interned without legal recourse. In many cases, their Read more
In August 1895, a ship docks in San Francisco carrying a cook named Wong Kim Ark — born in that very city, armed with an airtight certificate proving it. The customs collector refuses to let Read more
Associate Teaching Professor of History at University at Buffalo. Author of Bodies in Blue. Executive Editor at Nursing Clio. Writes about disability and the American Civil War. Has participated in Civil War reenactments, and still has the petticoats to prove it.
Assistant Professor of History at St. Leo University, former ACLS Fellow/Project Lead of ASU's Journal of the Plague Year. Studies lactating women for hire in the Atlantic world during the Revolutionary era. Unhealthy obsession with true crime podcasts.
Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Brockport. Inaugural Dr. Virginia Radley SUNY Fellow. Writes about Progressive Era women and the formation of the welfare state in the US. Author of Sentimental State. Texas native who married her tattoo artist (not just for the free tattoos).
