Call for Contributors: Oh, the Humanities!
The Activist History Review invites proposals for that essay you’ve been meaning to write, and other stories of good will.
Tag: Holidays
New Year’s Lessons from the History of Secession
No matter how divided the country is today, no matter the defeats of the past several years, there remains room to be both grateful and vigilant.
Ethnographic Analysis of a Social Meal: A Pedagogical Exercise
This assignment provided a great teaching moment to engage students in a critical analysis of the norms and expectations shaping what “traditional” means.
The Business of Holiday Meals
Corporate cookbooks show not only how prior generations of cooks approached the holiday meal, but also how it was shaped by the forces of urban capitalism that continue to inform our holiday tastes and desires.
Festivus as Anti-Capitalist Performance
Understanding Festivus means understanding that the episode and later celebrations were a rejection of both religion and capitalism in a media form that was also increasingly capitalist.
