Tag: Cold War

From the Bomb to the Beat: How Civil Defense Turned to Urban Unrest in Cold War America

.Reading time 14 minutes.

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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From Cold War Counterinsurgency to Policing in Ferguson: A Review of Stuart Schrader’s Badges Without Borders

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Schrader, Stuart. Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. By Charlotte Rosen As heavily-armed SWAT teams rained rubber bullets and tear gas on Ferguson protestors in August 2014, Palestinians on Twitter offered not only solidarity, but tactical advice. Given that the same tear gas […]

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Member of the Week: Patrice Green

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Patrice Green MA/MLIS Candidate University of South Carolina Describe your current research. What about it drew your interest?  My current research is on the history of the United States Space and Rocket Center, its establishment, and the development of its premier program, Space Camp. I’m looking at how the Center cultivated a national cultural identity […]

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