Journeys into the Past

  Our first issue in Volume II of Journeys into the Past features a number of articles that delve into the connections between local and global […]

Mitchell Duneier, ­Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) Review by Jacob Bruggeman “Today, […]

Eugène Hénard, ‘The Cities of The Future’, published in American City, January 1911. By Jacob Bruggeman The human era—the Anthropocene—continues to alter the Earth through […]

The official pamphlet of the American Exhibition in Moscow. By Matthew Kline The Cold War was a strategic and ideological battle between the superpowers of […]

By Rachel Wydra Santiago, who goes by “Santi,” is seven. He has recently learned the phrase “Come on!”. It is a useful English phrase for […]

By Jacob Bruggeman Why do we travel? Temporarily transporting ourselves to foreign places, regardless of how far removed from home they may be, is both […]

Construction Workers with Cement Mixer on High Street, Oxford, OH, 1916. By Sophia Szeles   Most of America transformed greatly during the Gilded Age due […]

By Kaylie Schunk What is the cost of adventure? Many sojourned west for opportunity and for the supposed right to harness uncultivated lands and resources. […]

By Kevin O’Hara The Duchess of Marlborough, circa 1903. “It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they […]

By Santiago Martinez Louis Dairymple. “School Begins.” Puck. (Keppler & Schwarzmann, New York: 1899). Two cartoons from different magazines published in New York, New York in […]