On July 22, 2011, a white supremacist killed eight people at Oslo's Government Center in Norway and then terrorized the idyllic island of UtOya, where he executed sixty-nine more people, mostly teenagers.?The country had never suffered such a massacre, and in the aftermath, the entire population was reeling. UtOya, the Norwegian Labor Party's ......
When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess?on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three weeks, 712 passengers tested positive for coronavirus, with fourteen deaths, and the ship outbreak quickly became the largest cluster of cases ......
When health authorities quarantined guests aboard the Diamond Princess?on February 5, 2020, the cruise ship abruptly shifted from a dream vacation vessel to a public health nightmare. Over the next three weeks, 712 passengers tested positive for coronavirus, with fourteen deaths, and the ship outbreak quickly became the largest cluster of cases ......
When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly expected to become their children's teachers. Despite this new arrangement, older gender norms largely remained in place, and these extra child rearing responsibilities fell disproportionately on ......
When stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic erased the division between home and school, many parents in the United States were suddenly expected to become their children's teachers. Despite this new arrangement, older gender norms largely remained in place, and these extra child rearing responsibilities fell disproportionately on ......
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"-an early version of football?in the?United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil ......
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most ......
Good Housekeeping, Popular Modernism, and Middlebrow Reading
In its February 1926 issue, Good Housekeeping magazine introduced a column for its approximately one million subscribers called "Tasting and Testing Books." The column's author, Emily Newell Blair, would go on to produce ninety-one reading advice columns for the magazine between 1926 and 1934. During this period, Good Housekeeping became the most ......
Football, Soccer, and the Origins of a National Myth
On Boston Common stands a monument dedicated to the Oneida Football Club. It honors the site where, in the 1860s, sixteen boys played what was then called the "Boston game"-an early version of football?in the?United States. The boys were largely the sons of upper-class Boston Brahmins, and they lived through the transformative periods of the Civil ......
