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Mapping Inequality

April 9, 2018 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg Picture the home (or homes) where you grew up. When was your neighborhood built? Did most people in your neighborhood own or rent their homes? What did your neighbors look like? Were there a lot of immigrants or your neighborhood? A visible transient population? Was there a lot of green space? What […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: african american studies, american studies, cities, History, redlining, urban studies

Who Makes Cents? A History of Capitalism Podcast

February 14, 2018 by Zoya Brumberg

How often do you stop and wonder how paper money and checking accounts became a part of our daily life? Can you pinpoint the moment in time when investing in the stock market became an activity available to ordinary citizens? How and why did the United States government become involved in funding railroads, paved roads, […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: american studies, betsy beasley, david stein, economic history, economics, History, history of capitalism, Podcast, public humanities, Public Scholarship

American Pulse Project

December 7, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg How will the moment of time in which you live be remembered? Will Occupy Wall Street or the anti-Trump movement be written into history as the 1968 of the 21st century? Are our lives a turning point in the political, economic, or social conditions of the modern world? For Rutgers University History […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: american history, current events, History, political science, public history, Public Scholarship, rutgers university, sociology, united states, united states history

Remembering Lincoln

November 13, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

Do your great-great-great-grandparents remember where they were on the evening of April 14, 1865? Though this may not be a question most of us ask ourselves, it is one that might be answered by exploring the digital archives of the Remembering Lincoln project. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln left a mark not only on […]

Filed Under: Featured, New & Noteworthy Tagged With: abraham lincoln, american history, american studies, Archives, History, Preservation, public history, sociology

Sexing History

October 26, 2017 by Zoya Brumberg

By Zoya Brumberg Some people may not consider history to be the sexiest topic, but for podcast hosts Lauren Gutterman and Gillian Frank, the histories of sex and sexuality are unique keys to understanding both the past and the present. Sexing History brings these lesser-known stories of history to life through short-form podcast storytelling rather […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Gender Studies, gillian frank, History, history of sex, history of sexuality, lauren gutterman, Podcast, public history, queer history, sex, sexuality

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