By Aidan Gordley Heroes in ESPN’s Body Issue: Milestones in the Media By Aidan Gordley Star winger from the United States Women’s National Soccer team, Megan Rapinoe, once said, “If you can’t take criticism, then you can never reach your potential” (1). This statement means a lot coming from Rapinoe, who has faced criticism fromContinue reading “Heroes in ESPN Body Issue: Milestones in the Media”
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Peter, Paul and Mary: The Rise and Fall of the Sixties
By Will Kennedy Folk music has long been a passageway for societies to tell the stories of their culture. With revolutions concerning race, freedom of speech, war, gender, and more, the Sixties are an integral age in the history of modern America. As the most popular folk group in the Sixties, the band Peter, PaulContinue reading “Peter, Paul and Mary: The Rise and Fall of the Sixties”
Coverture in the Courts: Marie Pourciau’s Legal Battle for Divorce
By Grace Rozembajgier ’23 On November 14, 1816, Marie Pourciau entered the courtroom in Pointe Coupée Parish, Louisiana, seeking to divorce her husband and reclaim the property she had brought to the marriage. The case, lasting just over a year, mysteriously ended with Pourciau withdrawing her claim. Nonetheless, the nearly three handwritten pages of courtContinue reading “Coverture in the Courts: Marie Pourciau’s Legal Battle for Divorce “
Why Double Negative Is Not Positively Counter-Hegemonic
By Clark Doman ’23 The Earthworks movement of the late 1960s and 1970s is perhaps the clearest counter-hegemonic impulse of American art during the 1945-1970 period. In a novel attempt to escape the obsessive commodification of art by the private art market, galleries, museums, and the general public, artists like Robert Smithson, Walter De Maria,Continue reading “Why Double Negative Is Not Positively Counter-Hegemonic”
Re-Entering the Game: One Town’s Persistence to Retain a Racist Mascot
By Jacob Irons ’25 Nestled in the corner of northeastern Connecticut lies Killingly High School. A school that has come under scrutiny in recent years regarding its choice of mascots: The Redmen and the Redgals. In 2019, the town’s Board of Education voted to remove the mascots from both their building and their identity andContinue reading “Re-Entering the Game: One Town’s Persistence to Retain a Racist Mascot “
From Unladylike to Unstoppable: Analyzing the Shift in Media Portrayal of BJK from 1964-1974
By Madeline Ladd ’25 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Six was the lucky number for tennis star Billie Jean King on September 20, 1973. On this date, she claimed victory in the famed Battle of the Sexes against former No. 1 ranked men’s tennis player and self-proclaimed male chauvinist Bobby Riggs. The consequences of the match wereContinue reading “From Unladylike to Unstoppable: Analyzing the Shift in Media Portrayal of BJK from 1964-1974 “
Soviets Success Shaped Team Play, Intense Training of Modern NHL
By Andrew McGuinness ’24 The Cold War was at its hottest for much of the 1970s and 1980s, creating an incredible amount of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union in countless aspects. One of the most heated facets, as it turns out, was hockey. Even people who, to quote Miracle on IceContinue reading “Soviets Success Shaped Team Play, Intense Training of Modern NHL”
“Little Abolitionists”: The Role of Children in the Fight to End Slavery Throughout the Antebellum Era
Meg Beuter Upon discovering that his wife Sophia was teaching their young enslaved boy the alphabet, Baltimore slaveholder Hugh Auld scolded her, claiming that this education would “forever unfit [the boy] to be a slave ” (4). The young enslaved boy in question was Frederick Douglass, the renowned abolitionist and orator (8). Despite Auld’s opposition,Continue reading ““Little Abolitionists”: The Role of Children in the Fight to End Slavery Throughout the Antebellum Era”
Cultural Portrayals of American Fast Food in China
By Clark Doman ’23 In the late 1980s and early 1990s, a decade after Deng Xiaoping introduced his “Open Door” policy that opened China to the rest of the world, American fast-food chains such as Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut, and McDonald’s established their first restaurants in China. These restaurants in Beijing and other largeContinue reading “Cultural Portrayals of American Fast Food in China”
Winning the War on Drugs: A Case for the Portuguese Policy Model
By Emily Lugg (’23) If drugs are a war, many policy analysts and public health experts would argue that America is losing on all fronts. As Nicholas Kristof notes in his 2017 opinion piece “How to Win the War on Drugs,” despite the fact the American criminal justice system dedicated billions of dollars over theContinue reading “Winning the War on Drugs: A Case for the Portuguese Policy Model”
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