History versus heritage? Memory versus history? Whose history and why? These questions are currently brewing a controversy at […]
Category Archive: American Studies
The past, it seems, keeps getting farther away—or, rather, what passes for a legitimate past does. In the […]
On Monday, February 9, 2015, Alabama became the 37th state to permit gay marriage. Well, sort of. Federal […]
The covert actions of the US government abroad, and their domestic ramifications, have drawn an increasing amount of […]
Indie and art house film has always extended the possibility of artistic freedom—at least as much as it’s […]
I entered my first semester of graduate school with supreme overconfidence. It was August 2001, three weeks before […]
In May 2000, the New York Times reported the upcoming demolition of the Crenshaw District’s Holiday Bowl. Built […]
“I remember traveling to Lake Elsinore, which was a long way in those days,” reminisced Zeke Mejia in […]