Nick SerlingThe Revival of the Eighties’Without contextualization of prior decades, the resurgence of political conservatism in the 1980’s seems anomalous. This movement is…Apr 15, 2022Apr 15, 2022
Nick SerlingThroughout the passage of Civil Rights era legislation, American discourse had become dominated…Largely seen as separate from the Civil Rights Movement, the economic disparities of the 1960’s serve as a broader context to this…Apr 11, 2022Apr 11, 2022
Nick SerlingA Revisionist History of World War TwoLate in the hours of March 20th, 2003, President George W. Bush, now faced with reassuring a recently traumatized nation, announced the…Mar 21, 2022Mar 21, 2022
Nick SerlingReimagining the Tapestry of the Great DepressionOftentimes, traditional histories of the Great Depression support a classical mythology built around American fortitude. There have…Mar 14, 2022Mar 14, 2022
Nick SerlingThe Fallout of Early Twentieth Century Immigration PolicyGlimpsed throughout cartoonish imagery like, “The High Tide of Immigration — A National Menace,” these surviving documents further…Mar 1, 2022Mar 1, 2022
Nick SerlingA Foundation of CulpabilityOn the evening of February 26th, 2020, President Donald J. Trump, spurned by global financial uncertainty due to an unknown viral outbreak…Feb 28, 2022Feb 28, 2022
Nick SerlingThe Myth of the AWhile modern historians continue to interrogate earlier concepts of the American West, one might see that the historical record supports…Feb 14, 2022Feb 14, 2022
Nick SerlingA Reflection of tEven in retrospect, the haunting imagery of grown African American men burned alive provides the audience a stark impression of the Nadir…Feb 7, 2022Feb 7, 2022
Nick SerlingThe Historical LensEarlier in my late teenage years, the mere concept of the Northwoods held no particular allure. The Wilderness was fascinating, sure, but…Feb 1, 2022Feb 1, 2022
Nick SerlingLessons from the Gilded AgeThough witnessed throughout surviving documentation of the so-called Gilded Age, issues of labor rights rarely plague academic discussions…Jan 31, 2022Jan 31, 2022
