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This is the fourth entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Heather N. Jahrling White police in white helmets. Jimmy Breslin spotted them in Harlem in July 1964, as protests over the fatal police shooting of fifteen-year-old James Powell spiraled into six days of fiery disorder: “The cops were everywhere, four […]
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This is the third entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Maria Rose Francis During a community-led walk through Milwaukee’s Midtown neighborhood in the summer of 2023, Ms. Betty Glosson, Ms. Talibah Mateen-Hooper, and Prof. Portia Cobb brought an earlier landscape back into view. At one corner, Ms. Betty recalled neighborhood efforts […]
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This is the second entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Vanessa Christman I must have driven my husband insane when we first tuned into Apple TV’s The Studio. Instead of enjoying the comedic hijinks, I went heavy on the pause button to examine the fictional Continental Studios headquarters. A tour guide […]
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This is the first entry in our 10th Annual Graduate Student Blogging Contest, “Revolution.” By Sarah Daisy Amador Farmers in the Palouse, a pastoral region encompassing southeastern Washington and central Idaho, burned 11,057 acres of Kentucky bluegrass stubble after harvest on September 12, 1994. The following morning, an acute asthma attack claimed the life of […]
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Revolution The Metropole/Urban History Association Graduate Student Blogging Contest is marking its tenth anniversary this year! The blogging contest exists to support graduate students in exploring short form, publicly oriented history writing as a way to teach beyond the classroom, develop marketable skills, and promote the enduring value of the humanities. This year’s theme is […]
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