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We Will Not Strike: The Black Revolt in the Chicago Teachers Union
(2015-12-09)
In the 1960s, black teachers in Chicago were systematically discriminated against by the school system’s Board of Education. The Board used a subjective oral exam to deny the vast majority of African-American educators ...
Intoxication and Empire: Distilled Spirits and the Creation of Addiction in the Early Modern British Atlantic
(2015-11-30)
This dissertation exams how the spread of imperialism in the British Atlantic led to the mass production and consumption of distilled spirits during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through transatlantic colonization, ...