Jeff Sessions vs. “The Secular Mindset”
On Independence Day, we commemorate the conception of a secular state, the only form of state that can accommodate a diversity of thought.
Category: 2017
A Patriotic Day of Protest
Today’s activists would be wise to take a page from history and use the Fourth of July holiday to illuminate the ways in which American society is becoming ever more unequal.
Lost in the Flood: Young Earth Creationism from George McCready Price to Ken Ham
With Jerry Falwell, Jr. joining the White House task force on higher education policy, it is safe to say that the movement for young Earth creationism will not be dissipating any time soon.
Taxing Values: What Our Tax Code Says About Us
The intricacies of the Code are not simply byzantine rules meant to confuse and frustrate, but rather are the result of the best and worst impulses of how we, as citizens and human beings, treat one another.
Protesting Invisibility in Silver Spring, Maryland
Silver Spring, Maryland developed during the early twentieth century as a sundown suburb: an area covering more than ten square miles where racial restrictive deed covenants prevented African Americans from owning or renting homes.
The Unsettling of Appalachia: Identity, Activism, and Appalachian Consciousness in Conversation with S-Town
Appalachia is a region too politicized to romanticize. Though the region could definitely use some romance.
Piercings at Peace: Death and the Body in S-Town
S-Town, even as it relies on new forms of technology and media distribution to create a new genre of podcast storytelling, is part of a long and complex anthropological tradition.
Postcards from Bibb County, Alabama, or Some Thoughts on NPR’s S-Town Podcast
S-Town is much more than a mystery narrative; it is all at once a biography, soap opera, eulogy, and history.
A Man of Impeachable Character: A Roundtable with the Editors
What we have now is not a president with scandals, but a scandalous presidency. We do not wonder that the president is now personally under investigation, but only how it could have taken so long.
Reading Blackhawk At Night and the Promise of the New Borderlands History: A Review Essay of Violence over the Land and The Comanche Empire
In revisiting approaches to Native American agency, suffering, aggression and violence, Ned Blackhawk’s Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West and Pekka Hämäläinen’s The Comanche Empire have provided readers and historians with new critical windows into the long Amerindian past, one inflected by a succession of transformative encounters with outsiders.
The Activist History Review 