Anna StroinskiChange the Names of Christopher Columbus and Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolsA petition is circulating online. It calls on the Clifton City Council and/or Board of Education to change the names of Christopher…Jun 9, 2020Jun 9, 2020
Anna StroinskiAn Undergraduate Reviews: Pitied But Not Entitled by Linda Gordon: Single Mothers and the History…Hi, all! I’m back with another review. Next up in the queue: Jackson Lears’s Rebirth of a Nation: The Making of Modern America. Seems like…Feb 4, 2020Feb 4, 2020
Anna StroinskiAn Undergraduate Reviews: The Work Ethic in Industrial America: 1850–1920 by Daniel RodgersHello, all! After a bit of a (long) detour, I’m back with another review. This time, it’s Daniel T. Rodgers’ The Work Ethic in Industrial…Jan 7, 2020Jan 7, 2020
Anna StroinskiRevisiting Emerson, Thoreau, and Warren: Subjective Experience, Human Flourishing, and Social…From Transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to individualist-anarchist Josiah Warren, individuality was a…Dec 27, 2019Dec 27, 2019
Anna StroinskiWhy Do We Like Who We Like?Suggested readings: Kolodny, “Love as valuing a relationship”; Setiya, “Love And the Value of Life,”; Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good…Nov 15, 2019Nov 15, 2019
Anna StroinskiBottlenecking HistoryTo say that history is becoming a privileged affair, a discipline for the top of the top of the top, is not alarmist. It’s a fair…Aug 6, 2019Aug 6, 2019
Anna StroinskiAn Undergraduate Reviews: Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by…I’m excited that this is already my third (!) book review. I planned to read The War Within: Diaries from the Siege of Leningrad by Alexis…Jul 28, 2019Jul 28, 2019
Anna StroinskiThe Gradients of ClassPeople who know me know that I’ve long expressed a distaste for rich folk. I won’t deny that that sounds bad on its face — do I really…Jul 27, 2019Jul 27, 2019
Anna StroinskiAn Undergraduate Reviews: The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of…Happy Monday, and many apologies for the long(ish) delay between my last review and this one. I moved to Boston two weeks ago, and it’s…Jul 1, 2019Jul 1, 2019
Anna StroinskiAn Undergraduate Reviews: How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel…I told myself that, in preparation for graduate school (whenever that might happen, and if it happens at all), I would read at least one…Jun 3, 2019Jun 3, 2019