Throughout the passage of Civil Rights era legislation, American discourse had become dominated with the racialized anxieties of a white, largely middle-class population. Similarly, recent articles from Cornell University revisited the long-forgotten months after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law, with the Roper Center concluding, “One month after…

Late in the hours of March 20th, 2003, President George W. Bush, now faced with reassuring a recently traumatized nation, announced the bombing of the Presidential Palace of Baghdad, Iraq. This decision marked the opening salvo to what would become a galvanizing conflict. As President Bush had offered in binary…

Oftentimes, traditional histories of the Great Depression support a classical mythology built around American fortitude. There have certainly been enough stories retold that serve to reinforce this narrative. Through this narrative, the era of the 1930’s was a time of struggle for the American public, surely a painful experience, but…

Glimpsed throughout cartoonish imagery like, “The High Tide of Immigration — A National Menace,” these surviving documents further contextualize the ambitions of the early twentieth century United States. While government policy favored a largely Anglicized immigrant population, recent political turmoil in Europe had led to increases in eastern and Slavic-affiliated…

On the evening of February 26th, 2020, President Donald J. Trump, spurned by global financial uncertainty due to an unknown viral outbreak in China, gave a live broadcast that would later serve as an omen for the months that followed. Throughout this hour-long historic address, President Trump offered an optimistic…

While modern historians continue to interrogate earlier concepts of the American West, one might see that the historical record supports another narrative. Spoken about broadly through Miriam Horn’s thesis “How the West Was Really Won,” this philosophy offers a far more critical understanding of Western Expansion. Upon reexamination of surviving…

Even in retrospect, the haunting imagery of grown African American men burned alive provides the audience a stark impression of the Nadir of Race Relations in the post-Civil War era. This era of post-Reconstruction in Southern History was defined by both acts of theatrical brutality and humble forms of resistance…

Earlier in my late teenage years, the mere concept of the Northwoods held no particular allure. The Wilderness was fascinating, sure, but not so much the idealized lifestyle. Many of the townships, from my hometown of Eagle River, to farther off communities like Star Lake or Phelps were besieged by…

Though witnessed throughout surviving documentation of the so-called Gilded Age, issues of labor rights rarely plague academic discussions. This subject often avoids discussion due to broader societal issues, ranging from an emerging women’s suffrage movement to disparities felt in African American communities. However, the ranging fallout of the labor rights…