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For most Americans the terms “environmentalist” and “liberal” are more or less synonymous. For many historians the set of ideas called environmentalism and the set of ideas called liberalism are similarly—and for similar reasons—connected. But it is not at all clear why these associations make sense. The environmental historian Roderick Nash provides one explanation for the pairing of environmentalism and liberalism in The Rights of Nature, where he argues that “one can regard environmental ethics as marking out the farthest limits of American liberalism.” 1 For Nash, t...

Republicans aren't buying it.  "In Biden’s Washington, words have no meaning. If the White House supports something, then it’s ‘emergency COVID-19’ relief or ‘infrastructure.’ If they oppose it, then it’s a ‘Jim Crow relic.' No matter what it is,'" a Senate Republican aide told Fox News. "Aside from being intellectually lazy, it’s also flat-out Orwellian. Some might also call it a lie." "We are all infrastructure now," the subject line of an email from the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., read. McConnell and other Republicans have argued that only ...

The Intersection Where George Floyd Died Has Become a Strange, Sacred Place. Will Its Legacy Endure? Time 2 hrs ago Janell Ross/Minneapolis © Ruddy Roye for TIME Jeanelle Austin brought together a group of caretakers who maintain George Floyd Square near the spot where Floyd was killed. Art, protest signs, candles, books, and more are collected inside the Chicago Avenue Fire Arts Center. The group preserves these items in what is now known as the George Floyd Global Memorial. Like a lot of us, Alfonzo “Box” Williams, 44, saw the footage—the last moments of George Fl...

[Trigger warning: This transcript and related audio recording contains material about sexual violence.] Today we’re going on record with Professors Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor and Lisa Materson. Both women are historians at UC Davis who specialize in women’s and gender history. Together they co-edited The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History, which consists of 30 analytical chapters covering topics such as women in U.S. imperialism, interracial unions and state power, gender and sexuality in popular culture and women’s work under free and unfree labor regimes. Caitlan ...

The Lonely Crowd is considered by many to be the most influential book of the twentieth century. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" in terms of inner-directed and other-directed social character opened exciting new dimensions in our understanding of the psychological, political, and economic problems that confront the individual in contemporary American society. The 1969 abridged and revised edition of the book is now reissued with a new foreword by Todd Gitlin that explains why the book is still relevant to our own era. "As accessible as it is acute, The Lonely Crowd is indis...