For the latest LGM podcast, I interviewed Michael Hillard, an economist at the University of Southern Maine, about his new book, Shredding Paper: The Rise and Fall of Maine’s Mighty Paper Indust
Alexis Pauline Gumbs has a new book out called Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. There’s an excerpt out in the Boston Review and I have to say it is a striking read. Rather,
This is a very long but pretty complete history of the “self-made man,” one of the most pernicious myths in American history. The true bard of this was the child raping minister and author
Watching Uber and Lyft fall on their faces is hilarious. Everything about the fact that these companies are hemorrhaging money after all the hype says what you need to know both about contemporary cap
Walter Johnson is one of our premier historians, period. His work on slavery and capitalism has helped reorient a narrative that for way, way too long argued that slavery was anti-capitalist, leading
One doesn’t expect to see a full rant against capitalism in the New York Times, but I guess we are moving into different times. Benjamin Fong’s op-ed about capitalism being the problem in
Scenes on a Cotton Plantation: Hoeing, engraving from Harper’s Weekly, February 2, 1867 Sven Beckert’s Bancroft Prize-winning book is a brilliant as advertised. He explores the history of cott
The language around climate change and epochs in history has fairly recently coalesced around the term “Anthropocene” to delineate the recent point humans became a geological force that is