In the wake of the 15th Amendment and Reconstruction, several southern states enacted laws that limited Black Americans’ access to voting. Following the ratification in 1870 of the 15th Amendment, which barred states from depriving citizens the right to vote based on race, southern states began enacting measures such asContinue Reading
Native American riveting gangs worked on the ‘high steel’ for iconic structures like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Plaza and more. Native Americans aren’t often associated with New York City and its dense, vertical landscape. With so many Indian nations pushed to America’s frontier in the 19th century,Continue Reading
Third grader Madison Cortes, right, reads off math problems to classmates on zoom while teacher Maria Mirkovic looks on at Christa McAuliffe School in Jersey City, N.J., Thursday, April 29, 2021. The public view of education technology has evolved over the past 12 months. When schools shut down last spring,Continue Reading
Wong Tsu’s 10 months at Boeing in 1916-17 led to the fledgling airplane manufacturer’s first military plane, first airmail plane and eventually, its first passenger plane. Wong Tsu, Boeing’s first aeronautical engineer, graduated from MIT in 1916. He is pictured here the following year. In 1904, anti-Asian sentiment in theContinue Reading
The resistance of teachers unions to return to the classroom in urban areas, despite early signals from health agencies that it was relatively safe to reopen schools and the knowledge that in-person learning is essential to the success of our children, has brought attention to what many astute observers haveContinue Reading
Students work together outside Warren Hall at Cornell University. The effectiveness of online learning in higher education is an open question: While some research finds that students who have lower GPAs or who are male, Black, or younger tend to perform relatively worse, other scholars have found that student learningContinue Reading
The fishing village in marshlands of present-day Louisiana was settled by the so-called Manilamen as early as 1763. The history of the oldest known permanent Asian American settlement remains mysterious and as murky as the mosquito-infested marshland it was built on. Saint Malo was first established as a fishing villageContinue Reading
Let’s Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education by Jonathan Marks Princeton University Press, 2021, $27.95; 228 pages.< As reviewed by J. Grant Addison In Let’s Be Reasonable, Jonathan Marks argues that higher education should rededicate itself to the project of liberal education. Taking his cue from John Locke,Continue Reading
First Lady Michelle Obama and Newark Mayor Cory Booker sit with children at the Maple Avenue School in Newark, N.J., Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. A common critique of charter schools is that the publicly funded but privately operated schools of choice systematically “push out” students who require specialized services orContinue Reading
In the 1880s, mobs in Tacoma and Seattle forcibly expelled Chinese residents. In Tacoma, town officials organized the action months in advance. The Tacoma Riot of 1885 and Seattle Riot of 1886 drew national attention to the burgeoning coastal cities in Washington territory for their forced expulsion of their ChineseContinue Reading
