What did they mean when coined and how do the meanings today reflect those histories? That’s the subject of Sarah Churchwell’s upcoming book,Behold, America, out October 9. Introduced more than a century ago, the concepts of “American Dream” and “America First” quickly became ...
Using the concepts of continuity and change, this essay seeks to describe the logic of the process of reconstructing new meanings from the old at the same time as it draws attention to the need to hear the human call for understanding and celebration of cultural differences embedded in the ...
Once I did that, I was not able to get an interview for a few months. I finally was hired at a hospital, where it turned out the owner was a staunch racist and hired me because he could pay me half what my classmates were getting. I couldn’t stay there…” We dog trainers and ...