The secret weapon that fought the postwar housing shortage
Historian Joshua Freeman's "Garden Apartments" sheds light on an often overlooked part of the nation's housing landscape. He discusses his research and its relevance for today.
Peter Moskos on "Back From the Brink" and today's issues of public safety
The profound changes in policing in New York City starting in the mid-1990's that Moskos wrote about in his book, and the dramatic drop in crime that ensued, along with Moskos's views of current public-safety issues in the city.
The promise of wilderness: Part 2
A History for the Future interview on the wilderness movement, public lands, and environmental politics since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964. Part 2 of a two-part interview.
The promise of wilderness
A History for the Future interview on the wilderness movement, public lands, and environmental politics since the passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.
A World More Concrete
Jim Crow in action: As Miami’s population boomed, where residents came to live was limited by strict lines drawn through the region’s geography, lines that divided white and black, workers and elites.
Recovering lost voices
How the history profession narrowed over time. Who became marginalized. The importance of valuing things other than the production of book-length manuscripts on narrowly defined subjects.
Summer in the city
An interview with the editor of a new collection of essays on John Lindsay’s mayoralty. A very different time in New York City, and a very different vision of governing it.
Sacrificing safety on the altar of nuclear preparedness
An interview with Kate Brown, the author of "Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters."
Lobbying America
Benjamin Waterhouse shows how business organizations woke up in the 1970s and changed American politics (and yes, there is at least one smoke-filled room).
Death knell for the middle class
Jake Rosenfeld's "What Unions No Longer Do" examines the enormous consequences of the long-term decline of the labor movement.