Category Archive: 1950s

Northern Virginia and Cold War Covert Capital

The covert actions of the US government abroad, and their domestic ramifications, have drawn an increasing amount of […]

The Power of Public Shaming: Cartographies of Protest in Boston and PR Stunts for Public Housing in the ATL (Best of UHA 2014, Part 3)

In part three of ToM’s UHA coverage, the role of media in shaping advocacy and protest occupies center […]

What a Hagan Victory Would Mean for North Carolina

North Carolina has long seemed to be on the verge of breaking from its reactionary past. Time and time […]

Spitting Hot Fire: Malibu Wildfires and the Santa Anas

“To live with the Santa Ana, is to accept consciously or unconsciously, a deeply mechanistic view of human […]

Structured Unrest: The Rumford Act, Proposition 14, and the Systematic Inequality that Created the Watts Riots

If “you keep telling people that they are unfairly treated and teach them disrespect for the law,” Chief […]

“Taking Compton National”: Schools, Race, and Modern Suburbia in 20th and 21st Century California

  “Our nation is moving toward two societies, One Black, One White – separate and unequal,” announced the […]

The American Military: Nineteen Histories about War, Society, and the U.S. Military’s Influence on the Nation

Even today, the category of military history still elicits a bit of head scratching. Our own John Southard […]

“Capital within a Capital”: Covert Action, the Vietnam War, and Creating a “Little Saigon” in the Heart of Northern Virginia

“That flag is the symbol of the spirit of the refu­gee,” Springfield resident and Vietnamese American talk show […]