Category Archive: 1960s

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 […]

The War on Poverty at 50: How Far Have We Come, and Where Are We Going? (A Conference Report)

One goal of studying the past is not to be trapped by history but to transcend it. — […]

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 […]

What Does Woodward’s Origins of the New South Have to Say to the Twenty-First Century Reader?

Less than a decade after C. Vann Woodward’s epic tome, Origins of the New South (1951), had been published, […]

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 […]