School Vandalism and American Democracy
After a bitter presidential election, pitting an establishment candidate with unsavory ties to Wall Street…
Author Campbell F. Scribner
How to Tripod
What happens when academic historians, museum professionals, and a radio producer try to tell a…
It’s a Different World: Black Student Activism From the Civil Rights Movement Through the Trump Era
The question caught me slightly off guard. On the evening of September 21, 2011, Troy…
The Arts in the Public Schools: An Intellectual History
Advocates for public schools have always needed to explain how they serve the public good,…
Setting Today’s Opioid Epidemic in Historical Context
We are living in a time of epidemic. Since the turn of the twenty-first century…
The Historical Origins of Today’s Healthcare Debates
Today’s mosealth care politics revolve around how to patch up a medical care system built…
Finding the History of Madams and Music in New Orleans
Those attending the Organization of American Historians’ Annual Meeting in April will be able to…
The Coleman Report and Its Critics: The Contested Meanings of Educational Equality in the 1960s and 1970s
Sociologist James S. Coleman’s 1966 report Equality of Educational Opportunity exposed the symbiotic relationship between…
Snake Oil Revisited: Household Medicine and the Condescension of Posterity
The best-remembered snake oil salesman, Clark Stanley, handled live snakes in a turn-of-the-century medicine show.…
Constitutional Originalism and History
Thanks to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch—a self-identified “originalist”—to the Supreme Court,…