Communism is a word that has a hugely negative connonation in the U.S., and that's because of the fear it inflicted on Americans. There were many causes of communism fears in the U.S., but the biggest ones were the Red Scare and McCarthyism, as well as t
If America’s paranoid style is homegrown and unique, conspiracy theory is universal. By the early 1920s,The Protocols of the Elders of Zion— the Beethoven’s Ninth of conspiracy theory — had been translated into German, Polish, French, Italian, and English. Its first Arab transla...
When someone mentioned gum in the '80s, this is what came to mind. You can probably taste it just by looking at the photo. There was always a barrel of this stuff sitting out at sporting events, and it would inevitably end up under the bench—where it's probably still stuck today. N...
When someone mentioned gum in the '80s, this is what came to mind. You can probably taste it just by looking at the photo. There was always a barrel of this stuff sitting out at sporting events, and it would inevitably end up under the bench—where it's probably still stuck today. N...
There are last-resort candies, and then there’s anything mint. Why not just eat toothpaste? But when you discovered that biting a Wint-O-Green Lifesaver in the dark created a magical burst of light in your mouth, there was nothing cooler. ...
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma. During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal ...
Some kinds of stories circulating today — related to growing nationalism or fear of challenges by immigrants to traditional cultural values — might underpin greater hesitation. Will these fears fuel enough economic hesitation to bring on another worldwide recession? Any answer at this time...
(The SPLC’s latest immigration case, filed in February, challenges an Alabama law that requires the state to maintain an online list of immigrants who are arrested and can’t prove that they’re not “unlawfully present” in the United States; the SPLC argues that the law provides no ...
Indigenous people that hunted in relatively low population densities and using traditional methods (though most were quick to integrate horses for increased mobility and proximity) were superseded by settler immigrants with firearms whose range and lethality increased rapidly across the 19th century. First...
huge influxes of Chinese and Indian immigrants during the British colonial period; and large-scale immigration throughout the post-colonial period, particularly of Indonesians [4]—an ethnic group that can easily be absorbed into the Malay sector of society, thus bolstering Malay numerical dominance...