Veterans Services at National Archives and Records Administration
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Annual Meeting Roundup Preview of “State of the Field: Abolition and Emancipation”
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Needles and Hoops Sports Programs in the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, the Socialist Party, and their Communist Rivals
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The N.Y.P.D.’s “superb weapon” Sports and Ideology in New York City’s Police Athletic League from the 1930s-World War II
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A History of Latino and Mexican Boxing
For at least a generation, boxing’s cultural impact has declined in the United States. Seemingly…
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Starting this May, the FDA is expected to implement a long-delayed component of the Affordable…
The 1952 Olympic Games, the US, and the USSR
The relationship between politics and international sport is fraught with tension and drama: the same…
Process Explores the Histories of Sport
The 2018 Winter Olympic Games are nearly upon us. They, like sports in general, have…