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The article focuses on Black domestic workers in Southern American white spaces during the Great Depression. The author examines undergraduate essays composed between 1928 and 1940 for sociology courses at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, that reported the white female student's observations of Black household workers.

The article discusses the social and legal standing of textiles and clothing during the antebellum period between the Revolutionary and Civil War in the U.S. The author points out that even slaves and married women, as group who had limited legal rights, had the rights to own their own clothing. Topics include the cost and availability of cloth and clothing, cases of infanticide, escaped slaves and their clothing, and the story of slave James whose fancy striped pantaloons were stolen and recovered after being recognized.

The article discusses U.S. unemployment policy during the Interwar Period of the early 1920s, including the role that the U.S. government played in offering services to the unemployed and the paternalist aspects of the policy. The role that U.S. Secretary of Commerce and future President Herbert Hoover played in developing U.S. welfare policy for the unemployed is discussed. The former U.S. colonel Arthur Woods' involvement in the 1921 President’s Conference on Unemployment is also discussed.

The article discusses the relation of the Supplementary Security Income (SSI) welfare program in the U.S. to HIV infection in the U.S. during the administration of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Topics include the treatment of people with AIDS (PWA) in relation to Medicaid and healthcare access, the social impact of the definition of AIDS by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the definition of disability by the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA). Social conditions of poor people, LGBT people, and minorities are noted.

The article discusses American newspaper advertisements within woman's pages developed for women consumers from 1895 through 1935. An overview of the U.S. newspaper publishers' efforts to gain access to women's private spaces in American homes, including their efforts to gain access to the American family, is provided.

The article focuses on the history of land speculation during the early republic of the United States (U.S.) The author discusses the frontier land claimed and sold by the original thirteen states, examines the federal government implemented land-office system, and explores the political aspects of federalism.

The article focuses on how the United States (U.S.) Civil War impacted the women's suffrage movement. The author discusses how suffrage rights often expand during times of war, compares the fight for suffrage for both Blacks and women, and analyzes how Back women worked to obtain southern support for suffrage.

The article considers the 1950s history of the right-wing popular front which embraced anti-Semitic and/or conspiratorial elements of the right, by discussing the magazine "American Mercury" and its owner Russell Maguire. It reports businessman Maguire gained control of the magazine in 1952 which was at that point under the editorial leadership of William Bradford Huie became the editor. It provides background of Maquire's education, business experience, and character and an overview of conservatism during the period.

The author discusses the legal relationship between Native Americans and the U.S. government in the early Federal period. He mentions the European concept of international law and how it applied to both groups, the interactions with the Creek and Iroquois peoples, and the question of U.S. imperialism.

The author discusses the arrival of African diplomats in the U.S. in 1960. He mentions the impact of black diplomats from newly independent nations in Africa, the issue of their presence in a racially segregated Washington, D.C., and presents instances of discrimination against ambassadors and their staff.

The author discusses methods for teaching students about the anti-Vietnam War movement in the U.S. during the 1960s and 1970s, particularly focusing upon misconceptions and myths that have arisen about the antiwar movement. It examines the antiwar movement in the context of the Cold War, cultural pluralism in the antiwar movement, and the concept of patriotism as it applied to the antiwar movement.

The article discusses welfare rights activism on behalf of African American women in New Orleans between 1959 and 1962, particularly concerning legislation known as the suitable home laws, which provided money from the U.S. Social Security Act's welfare provision Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), and active denial by the Louisiana Board of Social Welfare of ADC funding to African American women and children.

The article discusses a socioeconomic change in America in the 1970s in relation to the issue of nursing home abuse and a patient abuse-related scandal involving the John J. Kane Hospital in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The economic aspects of U.S. health care policy are addressed, along with deindustrialization, long-term care for older Americans, and America's New Deal government policies. Social rights and hospital wages in the U.S. are assessed.

The article offers an analysis of personal loyalty during the American Revolution in the 18th century. According to the author, men and women living under military rule maintained vague and ambiguous allegiances to survive under the British occupation. He argues that the people developed their own language of loyalism intended to persuade civilians to return their allegiance to King George III of Great Britain.

The article presents the text of the presidential address delivered by Nancy F. Cott at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 8, 2017. Cott explored the connection between democratic governance and the availability of public knowledge through free and factual media in the U.S. She also discussed the administration of President Donald Trump's practice to instill confusion about what is true and what is not.

The article focuses on the effort by U.S. President James Madison to rationalize emergency powers and reconcile them with the ideological principles of the new Republic. Topics discussed include popular rebellion as a problem of governance, how Madison looked to confederacies to find a way to insert special emergency powers into the federal constitutional blueprint and how constitutional provisions granting emergency powers created the institutional capacity to assert this new authority.

The article details the legal problems encountered by African American foreign correspondent William Worthy when he traveled to Cuba from the United States and promptly returned using a birth certificate instead of a passport, in violation of the 1961 travel ban issued by the U.S. State Department and the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). As a reporter for the "Baltimore Afro-America" and an active member of the activist group Fair Play for Cuba Committee, it was reported the the U.S. government targeted Worthy for his public support of the administration of Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro.

The article discusses the evolution of the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Plattsburgh's history department in relation to the American Historical Association's Tuning the History Discipline in the United States initiative which is designed to provide the history departments at U.S. colleges with guidance on teacher- and learning-related assessments. College student-centered assessments of faculty members and the learning process are examined, along with surveys and assignments.

The article looks at how African American Muslim minister Malik Shabazz or known as Malcolm X built an Islamic ethics of liberation in the U.S. inspired by Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser's example since 1964. It builds on the article on professor Manning Marable's suggestion that Islam became the spiritual platform toward Shabazz's life. This ethics was consonant with the social gospel tradition of American Christianity and of then African American religion.

The article discusses the U.S. war on drugs in the context of the legal protections for suburban white middle class illegal drug users and addicts from the 1950s through the 1980s, including in regard to the U.S. President Ronald Reagan's illegal drug policy. An overview of the racial disparities in U.S. drug policy between African Americans and whites, including for marijuana and crack cocaine, is provided.

The article discusses the relationship between birth certificates and child labor laws in the U.S. from the 1870s through the 1930s, including efforts of labor reformers to have employers use age to regulate youth employment. An overview of parents' perspectives on their children's ages, including in regard to their lack of documentation of their children's birth dates, is provided. The role that the U.S. census played in maintaining records on age and birth dates is discussed.

The article reviews the web site titled "Child Labor in America, 1908–1912: Photographs of Lewis W. Hine," located at http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html, and developed by the Internet publication the History Place.

The article focuses on the history of the term "carpetbagger" in relation to the reconstruction period after the American civil war. The author examines the origins of the luggage known as a "carpetbag," explores the implications of Black mobility, and discusses the political connotations of the word from both a Republican and Democratic standpoint.

The article focuses on the growth of multinational conglomerates after World War II. Topics include the postwar economic growth, the U.S. Justice Department scrutiny brought to mergers by the Celler-Kefauver Act, and the influence of high-concept corporate capitalism.

The article presents a speech by professor George J. Sánchez, delivered as the presidential address at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on April 17, 2020. Topics include American democracy, undocumented immigrants, and the separation of families at the border.

The article focuses on the history of redlining, or refusing to lend to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk, in the United States after the passage of the New Deal. It examines the intellectual origins of real estate economics, discusses the Institute for Research in Land Economics, and explores the Great Migration.

The article focuses on the history of bilingualism along the Mexican-American borderlands, specifically El Paso, Texas. Topics include how Spanish language instruction for Anglo students was driven by conservative interests, the impact this had on Mexican American students, and the overarching theme of social anxiety.

The article focuses on American Indigenous southerners who evaded federal "Indian removals" in the 19th century. Topics include the invention of evasion before the Indian Removal Act of 1830, how officials interpreted or overlooked these actions, and the enduring legacy of evasion in the present day.

The article focuses on the Seligman affair, when Jewish banker Joseph Seligman and his family were denied stay at the The Grand Union Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York, in 1877. The author explores how the Seligman affair exemplifies legal anti-Jewish discrimination and anti-Semitism, describes the legislation that disproportionately disadvantaged Jews at this time, and examines how law makers failed to ensure Jewish civil rights.

The article focuses on the history of civil rights for African Americans in relation to the history of Black churches. The author explores the modern meaning of "civil rights" as it changed in the 19th century, examines the private law of religion and the history of contract law, and discusses the theme of the Black freedom struggle.

The article offers information on how public history organizations are handling the twin pandemics of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 and racial inequality in the United States (U.S.). Three roundtable discussions were held, which included participation by professor Ricia Anne Chansky, forensic anthropologist Anna N. Dhody, archivist Meredith Evans, curators Peter Leibhold, Alexandra Lord, Amanda L. Mahoney, Louise E. Shaw, Sam Vong, and director of the Texas After Violence Project Gabriel Solis.

The article offers information on how public history organizations are handling the twin pandemics of the coronavirus disease COVID-19 and racial inequality in the United States (U.S.). Three roundtable discussions were held, which included participation by professor Ricia Anne Chansky, forensic anthropologist Anna N. Dhody, archivist Meredith Evans, curators Peter Leibhold, Alexandra Lord, Amanda L. Mahoney, Louise E. Shaw, Sam Vong, and director of the Texas After Violence Project Gabriel Solis.

The article focuses on women in the American labor movement between 1964 and 1989. Topics include the relationship between work, gender, and Unionism in the postwar public sector, the bargaining for comparable work and the fight for pay equity, and the role of the union the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (Afscme).

The article discusses livestock breeding in the United States during the early twentieth century, focusing particularly on aspects of eugenics and government policy towards certain animals between 1919 and 1933. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Cooperative Extension Service (CES) defined scrubs as bulls of mixed or unknown breeding capable of passing along undesirable traits if bred, thus leading to many of them being killed after mock trials to prevent their breeding and passing along their traits to their progeny. It argues such programs followed popularly held notions of eugenics and race of the period.

The article discusses the post-Civil War expansion of capitalism in the U.S., particularly industrial enclosures in the South and West, by using the example of New York City businessman William E. Dodge and his company Phelps, Dodge, & Co. The company bought three hundred thousand acres of Georgia's pine barrens in 1868, land which had previously been used as commons by yeoman farmers. The company also was responsible for the dispossession of Apache Indians in Arizona to make way for its industrial mining endeavors, while being part of the beginning of focus of wage laborers efforts to regain power over repressive and unfair labor practices. The relationship between businessmen and the majority Republican Party are explored.

The article presents a speech given at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 6, 2019. Topics include the history of racism in the U.S., its effect on racial discrimination in education, and the importance of educational diversity for the common good of the nation.

The article discusses hundreds of fires in Hoboken, New Jersey, between 1978 and 1983 that were likely caused by arson and resulted in the displacement of Puerto Rican-American tenement residents during a period of simultaneous gentrification in the city. According to the article, the damaged and destroyed tenements were transformed into condominiums that raised real property values and saw demographic change. The article examines federal and state policies that encouraged development of urban markets.

The article discusses the U.S. government agency the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the 1940s, particularly focusing upon varying and sometimes opposing goals for civil rights and socioeconomic reform for U.S. farm laborers. According to the article, the FSA was created as part of the New Deal programs proposed and managed by the administration of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The article discusses the role of U.S. racism and the U.S. civil rights movement in Canadian understanding of racism in Canada. Topics include discrimination against black and indigenous people in Canada, transnational cooperation between Black Canadians and African American activists, and the impact of racism on the international reputation of the U.S.

The article discusses the role of slavery in the improvement of public infrastructure in the antebellum U.S. South. Topics include the links between slavery and capitalism, the construction of a state-owned railway by slaves in Georgia, and the role of slaves in building steamboat infrastructure in Mississippi. The role of slaves in improving Louisiana's water and rail transportation infrastructure is noted.

The article discusses the role of artificial satellites from the U.S. Landsat program in discovering natural resources. Topics include the relation of space exploration to globalization, the role of the program in U.S. relations with Third World nations, and the relation of the program to environmental degradation related to resource extraction.

The article offers several historians' perspectives on political corruption throughout U.S. history from the late 17th century through the early 21st century, including in the Gilded Age, the impact of corruption on democracy, the bribery of legislators and political machines. An overview of the relationship between power and corruption is provided.

The article discusses the role that the U.S. civil rights movement played in the U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson's desegregating hospitals for African Americans during the 1960s, including in regard to his development of the Medicare program. An overview of the Medical Committee for Human Rights' (MCHR's) activism to desegregate U.S. hospitals is provided.

The essay examines the enforcement of morals law in Los Angeles, California, during the mid-20th century. It discusses the concept of sexual liberalization in the areas of legal reform and social science, and how racial inequity in the enforcement of morals laws in the city established a foundation for conflict between African American residents of the city and the city's police force, which resulted in urban unrest, specifically the 1965 riots in the Watts neighborhood.

The author presents his thoughts concerning teaching the concepts of peace and social justice activism in U.S. history survey classes, particularly attempting to navigate the partisanship that he identifies as emblematic of early 21st century. The article discusses the utilization of the U.S. Constitution and the concepts of civil liberty and national security.

The article focuses on the culture of violence within the secret coalition of abolitionists in the United States before the Civil War known as the Underground Railroad. Topics include how fugitive slaves impacted the political crisis of the 1850s, the Southern slaveholders that traveled North to capture fugitive slaves, and the backlash experienced by slaveholders and slave catchers by Northern communities.

The article reviews the Museum of the Bible, Washington, D.C.

The article focuses on weather forecasts provided outside of scientific institutions in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. The author examines the policing of counterfeit weather forecasts, explores the relationship between weather forecasting and advertising, and discusses how the commercialization of weather forecasts presented a problem for the U.S. government.