Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West
The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth century-has often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards of the Land, Stevie Ruiz reassesses the movement and reveals that it has always been a multiracial endeavor. From Southern ......
Race and Reclaiming Environmental Labor in the American West
The history of the environmental movement-from environmentalism to the environmental justice struggles of the late twentieth century-has often been portrayed as a series of efforts led by white environmentalists. In Stewards of the Land, Stevie Ruiz reassesses the movement and reveals that it has always been a multiracial endeavor. From Southern ......
Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
Free people of color were both architects of equal rights and active participants in the Civil War, on and off the battlefield. Their unique status as already free persons before emancipation shaped their experiences of military service, political activism, and community life in ways distinct from those newly freed from slavery and impacted how ......
The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion
Most people today understand contraception as central to women's liberation, and when the birth control pill arrived in 1960, the media thought it would usher in a sexual revolution. But a surprising number of religious Americans in the mid-twentieth century also saw contraception as part of God's plan-a tool to create happy, prosperous American ......
The Surprising History of Contraception and Sexuality in American Religion
Most people today understand contraception as central to women's liberation, and when the birth control pill arrived in 1960, the media thought it would usher in a sexual revolution. But a surprising number of religious Americans in the mid-twentieth century also saw contraception as part of God's plan-a tool to create happy, prosperous American ......
Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era
Free people of color were both architects of equal rights and active participants in the Civil War, on and off the battlefield. Their unique status as already free persons before emancipation shaped their experiences of military service, political activism, and community life in ways distinct from those newly freed from slavery and impacted how ......
Native American Literatures, Extra Archives, and the Indigenous Transpacific
Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and dozens more in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Alyssa Hunziker considers how American imperialism in the Pacific-typically thought of as separate from the colonization of North America-is deeply intertwined with US settler colonialism. ......
Travel back to 258 BCE and step into the Royal Council of King Ashoka, the powerful ruler of Magadha whose empire spanned most of India. Ashoka's bold vision is to rule not by force but through dharma-a growing concept of universal order and ethical governance. As councillors, students join a diverse group of voices-Brahmin traditionalists, Jains, ......
Native American Literatures, Extra Archives, and the Indigenous Transpacific
Since its founding, the United States has colonized more than five hundred Indigenous nations in North America and dozens more in the Pacific and the Caribbean. Alyssa Hunziker considers how American imperialism in the Pacific-typically thought of as separate from the colonization of North America-is deeply intertwined with US settler colonialism. ......
