Mad Men has provided an enhanced record of working women and middle-class homemakers in the 1960s, as well as pointing out that women’s quest for full inclusion in American professional life is still not finished.
May, 2015
The “Murder” of Calvin Crozier
From defending against Colored Troops offensive language to an attempted assault to attempted rape, the cause celebre of Calvin Crozier as martyr evolved to suit the times.
Reconstruction and the House Museum
The National Park Service has recently commissioned a study of possible sites for the commemoration of Reconstruction.
Remembering Our First Female Soldiers on Memorial Day
There is a group of soldiers that often gets forgotten when we remember our troops on Memorial Day: the WACs, the more than 150,000 women who served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
“So Nearly White”: The Fight to Commission a Black Officer
Was it possible to commission an African-American soldier as an officer in the Union Army and in the same act not commission an African-American soldier as an officer in the Union Army?
Seven Sports Scandals
Here are seven of the biggest scandals in the history of American sports.
Getting Right with Brown
For over sixty years, no matter where you stand on the constitutional spectrum, you have had to get right with Brown v. Board of Education.
How We Still Look At and Talk About Indians and Their Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s show The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky closed last week, but during its two-month run it attracted a lot of attention.
Five Civil War Generals Who Went on to Fight in the Indian Wars
William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, and more…
Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day
Mothers’ Day did not start as a way to encourage people to be nice to their mothers, but as an impassioned effort by women to end war forever.