Setting Today’s Opioid Epidemic in Historical Context
We are living in a time of epidemic. Since the turn of the twenty-first century…
Author David Herzberg
The Historical Origins of Today’s Healthcare Debates
Today’s mosealth care politics revolve around how to patch up a medical care system built…
Finding the History of Madams and Music in New Orleans
Those attending the Organization of American Historians’ Annual Meeting in April will be able to…
The Coleman Report and Its Critics: The Contested Meanings of Educational Equality in the 1960s and 1970s
Sociologist James S. Coleman’s 1966 report Equality of Educational Opportunity exposed the symbiotic relationship between…
Snake Oil Revisited: Household Medicine and the Condescension of Posterity
The best-remembered snake oil salesman, Clark Stanley, handled live snakes in a turn-of-the-century medicine show.…
Constitutional Originalism and History
Thanks to President Donald Trump’s nomination of Justice Neil Gorsuch—a self-identified “originalist”—to the Supreme Court,…
Linking Hunger and Health: The Place of Food Security in the Battle over Healthcare
On the fiftieth anniversary of what became known as “discovery of hunger” in the United…
On Afrocentric History in American Education
Donald Trump was vaguely familiar enough with black history to identify Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman,…
Richard Nixon at the Supreme Court
Fifty years ago, in January 1967, the Supreme Court decided Time, Inc. v. Hill, the…
Education as Activism: The Voter Education Project in the Civil Rights Movement
In May 1962, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) received a grant worth $5,750.00 for…