Tropics of Meta contributors do not only spend their nights toiling at WordPress and waiting by the phone to hear from our editors. They have also published widely in sources online and off, from traditional peer-reviewed journals to blogs and news sites. We wanted to compile some of the notable things our contributors have written in a wide variety of the platforms for some light Summer reading, links to which are included below:
Adam E. Gallagher
- Palestine: A History of Nonviolence (Carnegie Endowment)
Jason Resnikoff
- Thomas Crown’s Global Vision (Paris Review)
- The Indescribable Frankenstein: A Short History of the Spectacular Failure of Words (Paris Review)
Carribean Fragoza
- Greenlighting Mosquita (Culture Strike)
Lauren MacIvor Thompson
- “I wish I could forget myself…”: Mary Todd Lincoln and the Pursuit of True Womanhood, 1818-1882 (Essays in History)
Nick Juravich
- Ghosts of Party Past: New York’s Last Two Democratic Mayors and the 2013 Election (Dissent)
- A Crown Heights Homicide (Parts I-IV) (I Love Franklin Avenue)
Benjamin Coates
- Law and the U.S. Foreign Relations Survey, Part I: Expanding the Sphere, Filling the Gaps (Legal History Blog)
- Law and the U.S. Foreign Relations Survey, Part II: Teaching the Founding as Foreign Relations
- Law and the U.S. Foreign Relations Survey, Part III: Empire and the Laws of Expansion
- Law and the U.S. Foreign Relations Survey, Part IV: Law, Civilization, and Empire
Ryan Reft
- Building Nostalgia: Disney, Legoland, and Southern California (KCET)
- Compton as the Bellwether for Urban America
- What’s Old is New: How Orange County’s Conservative Past Created Its Demographics Today
- Fast Times with Valley Girls: 30 Years Later, What Do Two SoCal Classics Tell Us About America?
- Retail California: Cars, Drive-In Markets, and Consumers
- Retail California: Ralphs, the Big Lebowski, and Shaping the American Shopping Experience
- Retail California: Shopping Centers, Malls, and Creating a New Consumerism
- Courting Division: How Three Southern California Court Cases Bolstered and Hindered Multiracial Civil Rights Movements
- From Better Luck Tomorrow to K-Town: Asian Americans and Los Angeles in 21st Century Media
- A Dive into the Deep End: The Importance of the Swimming Pool in Southern California
- Seventy Years Later: The Zoot Suit Riots and the Complexity of Youth Culture
- Shifting Lanes: The Demise of the Southern California Autotopia
- The Pirates of Los Angeles: Music, Technology, and Counterculture in Southern California
Alex Sayf Cummings
- Galifianakis: Liberal Hero (Salon)
- “No Pakistanis”: The Racial Satire the Beatles Don’t Want You to Hear (Salon)
- Forget Copyright! We’ve Always Stolen Music (excerpt from Democracy of Sound)
- Why MOOCs Are Like the Music Industry (H-Net)
- The End of Ownership (OUP Blog)