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The Immigration Debate—from the 1920s

August 16, 2016 by Martin Green

Stanching the Flow   By Martin Green   The emergence of immigration as a major issue worldwide and especially in the presidential campaign—thanks to Donald Trump’s vociferous attack on alleged rapists, drug dealers, and other criminals sneaking across the southern border, to say nothing of the threat posed by terrorists hiding among Moslem refugees—is not, of course, the first time Americans have debated the issue of access to American society by aliens. The early 1920s was the decade in which […]

Categories: Article • Tags: American history, anti-Semitism, Donald Trump, immigrants, immigration

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The American Splitting Experiment

January 24, 2015 by William Eaton

  In The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan, Rick Perlstein splits Americans of that recent period into two “tribes.” One comprised the suspicious circles, which had once been small, but now were exceptionally broad, who considered the self-evident lesson of the 1960s and the low, dishonest war that defined the decade to be the imperative to question authority, unsettle ossified norms, and expose dissembling leaders. The other tribe “found another lesson to be self-evident: never […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: American Dream, American history, class warfare, Declaration of Independence, History, Lewis Mumford, money, politics

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US History, Short not Sweet

August 31, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link]   From Peter Irons, A People’s History of the Supreme Court: No country on earth grew faster than the United States during the last four decades of the nineteenth century. Between 1860 and 1900 the nation’s population swelled from 31 to 75 million, . . . The number of farms grew from two million to six million, and the development of machines like combines, reapers, and harvesters turned barren land into “amber waves of grain”. . . . It […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: American history, class warfare, farmers, law, slavery

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Separate but Unequal: The Sexism in Forcing Women to Play Softball

June 7, 2014 by William Eaton

I can hardly convey the long-awaited validation I felt this morning when I woke up to find Emma Span’s New York Times Op-Ed piece, Is Softball Sexist? In this article she lays out a very articulate explanation of how women were forced out of playing the sport of baseball, and why the option to play softball does not justify that exclusion. As a young girl, I was one of the best players on my co-ed little league team, 95% of which […]

Categories: Caterina Gironda, ZiR • Tags: American history, baseball, sexism, softball, sports, women

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The Evolution of Dinner

November 5, 2013 by stewchef

By Claire Stewart A review of Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll (Basic Books, 2013) Food historian Abigail Carroll’s debut book, Three Squares: the Invention of the American Meal, explores the historical reasons why we eat what we do, and when. Combing through a range of primary sources, she analyzes how our eating choices have been determined by our changing economic circumstances. Carroll proves that history unfolds at our dinner table, and that this story […]

Categories: Review • Tags: American history, dinner, eating, family, women

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