Does Manifest Destiny Apply to the Moon?
July 13, 2009
An article by Arnaldo Testi, author of the forthcoming Capture the Flag: The Stars and Stripes in American History. When, on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin… READ MORE
Category: American Studies
The Precarious Employment Podcast
July 9, 2009
From KPFA’s Against the Grain: Download program audio (mp3, 41.02 Mbytes) The era of stable, secure, steady work with one employer is over. According to Andrew Ross, author of the… READ MORE
A Nice New Yorker If You Can Get It
June 22, 2009
Andrew Ross’s Nice Work If You Can Get It appears in the Briefly Noted section of this week’s New Yorker (June 29th). According to Ross, job insecurity became commonplace long… READ MORE
Freedom’s Award-Winning Prophet
June 8, 2009
Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, winner of ForeWord’s Book of the Year Gold Award for Biography, was recently the subject of a… READ MORE
“Any person who is in any way deformed shall not expose himself to public view.”
May 27, 2009
Chronicle Weekly wrote up a brief tale from Susan Schweik’s The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public. Excerpt below, full story here. On patrol in Omaha in 1974, a police officer… READ MORE
Susan Boyle: Just Another Unregulated High Risk Investment?
May 15, 2009
Andrew Ross, Chair of NYU’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, is author of Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times. Illustration courtesy of… READ MORE
