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…
Browsing: Research
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.…
Richard Nixon at the Supreme Court
Fifty years ago, in January 1967, the Supreme Court decided Time, Inc. v. Hill, the…
Education as Activism: The Voter Education Project in the Civil Rights Movement
In May 1962, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) received a grant worth $5,750.00 for…
From the Archives… Women’s History
In a 1990 Journal of American History piece, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich recounted her experiences working…
What’s in the March Issue of the Journal of American History?
The March issue of the Journal of American History is now online for subscribers. Included are…
From the Archives… Education History
As a part Process’s month on the history of education, we peeked into the Journal…
How to Train an Obstetrician: Lessons from the Chicago Maternity Center
On Saturday, January 21, 2017, hundreds of thousands concerned about reproductive healthcare in the Trump…
Native Foods and the Colonial Gaze
Just as the field of food history has achieved prominence in recent years—as this month’s…
Historians Suggest Readings to Understand the 2016 Election
Over the past few weeks, we’ve asked our twitter followers this question: As a historian,…