There Is Nothing Like a Dame
Did we get your attention? It's Women's History Month!
We are accepting submissions now for this month’s remaining issues, and would love to hear more from—and about—women and feminism.
Image credit: Caroline S. Brooks, stereograph showing The Dreaming Iolanthe (1876), a study in butter. The Library of Congress via Public Domain Review.
Woman’s History Month
Claire Potter, “Women’s History, An Origin Story: In 1975, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg published “The Female World of Love and Ritual, and changed how my generation of feminists understood the practice of history.” (March 1, 2021)
Peter Dreier, “Betty Friedan’s Radical Century: Because of this organizer, you can’t understand the twentieth century without talking about feminism.” (March 4, 2021)
Covid and College
Bonnie Mak and Hallam Stevens, “The Campus After Covid-19: Infrastructures of `innovation’ have produced new forms of surveillance and compliance that will refigure the post-pandemic campus.” (March 4, 2021)
History of the Present
Robert Slayton, “Ronald Reagan’s Worst Decision Created Rush Limbaugh: When the Fairness Doctrine was demolished in the name of free speech, a new conservative media rose up from the ashes.” (March 3, 2021)
History Reconsidered
Peter Vervovsik, “Why Adam Smith & Karl Marx Would Both Think $15 Isn’t Enough: Because the minimum wage is a subsistence wage, the left must aim higher.” (March 4, 2021)
Policing the Police
Leslie Reagan, “Why Spit-Hoods Should Be Banned: A relic of slavery, they are inhumane and often deadly.” (March 4, 2021)
Books
Mark Hage, “Broom Swept: Failure tells a tale about capitalism too.” (March 2, 2021)
Our Columnists
John Stoehr, “Conservative Democrats Play Legislative Ball While Republicans Deliberately Fumble It: This is how the democratic process works.” (March 4, 2021)
Heather Cox Richardson, “Our Janus-Faced Political Culture: As the Biden administration moves into the future, conservatives are stuck in the past.” (March 4, 2021)
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