The N.Y.P.D.’s “superb weapon” Sports and Ideology in New York City’s Police Athletic League from the 1930s-World War II
New York City’s Mayor, Bill de Blasio, began his second term in office last month,…
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Reconstruction-Era Politics Shaped Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Last month, Governor John Bel Edwards proposed a potential $1 billion cut to Louisiana’s higher…
Trump, Democracy, and the Constitution
At the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, Elbridge Gerry, a delegate from Massachusetts, warned against too…
A History of Latino and Mexican Boxing
For at least a generation, boxing’s cultural impact has declined in the United States. Seemingly…
Selling American Vigor The Cold War and the President’s Council on Physical Fitness
Starting this May, the FDA is expected to implement a long-delayed component of the Affordable…
The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR
The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same…
Process Explores the Histories of Sport
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are nearly upon us. They, like sports in general, have…
Philanthropy, Nonprofits, and Democracy in the United States
In December 2017, Congress came very close to helping Donald Trump fulfill a campaign promise…
The Courtroom as Legal Borderland Indigenous and Western Legal Tradition in 1900s Alaska
Approaching the courtroom itself as a legal borderland—both as a place where colonial encounters between…
Using Poor Laws to Regulate Race in Providence in the 1820s
In 1825, members of the town council of Providence, Rhode Island, made a public—and unusual—complaint.…