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A collection of big picture essays (typically four of 2,000-2,500 words apiece) on a key question or problem in modern American history.

  • Forum: Animals in Modern U.S History
  • Forum: Animals in Modern U.S History
  • Seven historians explore the impact of human decisions (and government policy) on the experiences of animals, the business of breeding and training animals, as well as struggles to balance the needs of animals with those of humans and the environments in which both live. They analyze how interactions between human and nonhuman animals have shaped the history of the modern United States....
  • Forum: Sports in the 1970s
  • Forum: Sports in the 1970s
  • Why was the 1970s such a transformative decade in sports and towards what end for American politics, civil rights, and pop culture? Six experts reflect...
  • Forum: Humanitarianism and the Military
  • Forum: Humanitarianism and the Military
  • What is the relationship between the United States’ military power and its humanitarian activities in the 20th century world? How did the United States’...
  • Forum: Nation of Immigrants
  • Forum: Nation of Immigrants
  • How and when have immigrants found acceptance in the modern United States? Why and when have they faced opposition?
  • Forum: Debt
  • Forum: Debt
  • How have the quest for access to debt and the desire to be free from its burden motivated Americans throughout this country’s history?
  • Forum: Rights
  • Forum: Rights
  • How have conceptions of rights expanded? Why have existing rights been challenged? What obstacles remain to their realization?
  • Forum: Fear and Loathing
  • Forum: Fear and Loathing
  • Under what conditions have scares, moral panics, and the “paranoid style” thrived in the modern United States?