The US Post and the Making of the American West
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United …
A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas p…
Western Standard | The independent voice of the New West
westernstandard.news | The independent voice of the New West
The Washington Post sold Democracy. Now it needs a new line of business.
A leading American newspaper enters a new era.
The Closing of the Frontier — Tanya Verma
In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that much that is distinctive about America was shaped by the existence of free land to the West where anyone could start over, and that this condition infused America with its characteristic liberty, egalitarianism, rejection of feudalistic hierarchy, self-sufficiency, and ambition.
How The US Took Over The World
annotations: La tiers-mondisation de l'Amérique
traduction française du billet de blog "The third-worlding of America" de Paul Krugman
The Birth of the Attention Economy
The rise of the cheap, daily newspaper in the 19th century remade how Americans engaged with the world.
The Water’s Edge: Empire, Race, and the Global History of Oakland, California, 1848-1980
Author(s): Klein, Andrew Nelson Carver | Advisor(s): Kelley, Robin D.G. | Abstract: This dissertation explores historical intersections between capitalism, race-making, environmental change, and U.S. foreign relations from the vantage of Oakland’s waterfront. It tracks the evolution of this geostrategic coastline since it emerged as a coal-powered nexus of railroads, steamships, and military installations during American colonization. Revising the story of Oakland’s development from a global perspective, my project documents how local boosters, businessmen, and bureaucrats forged intimate ties with far-flung territories administered by U.S. troops and landowners. Combining social and environmental history with methods from Black studies, I map the transformation of Oakland’s fertile estuary into an infilled hub of postindustrial commerce, a vital node of military logistics, and a focal point for racialized labor migration. Simultaneously, this dissertation reveals how, over the long twentieth century, Black, Indigenous, Chinese, and other working-class Oaklanders found footholds on the harbor, often repurposing its imperial routes for dramatically different ends. Drawing on archives and oral histories in Cuba, Hawai‘i, and across the continental United States, I trace Oakland’s tradition of radical internationalism, most visible in the antiwar and Black Power movements of the sixties, to multi-generational struggles over the governance of coastal land. I argue that Oakland’s waterfront both bridged the continental and overseas expansion of an ascendant world power and came to serve as a proving ground for alternative forms of globalization. “The Water’s Edge” therefore offers a critical reappraisal of the generally place-bound history of North American urbanism and far-reaching lessons for building just cities in a present defined by global environmental crises.
Imperialism | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Why Robert Frank’s “The Americans” Matters Today
The photographer’s seminal monograph had a seismic impact on photography conventions and American culture.
Book Review of Making All the World America
Steven T. Newcomb reviews Timothy Bowers Vasko’s Making All the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026).
Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Maximizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have had an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
The Reconstruction Papers
The Reconstruction Papers is available for pre-order in the US Pre-Order Now! For nearly a century, the conservative movement's white whale was the government the New Deal and the Great Society had built. Republicans chipped away at it but feared the political ramifications of going too far.
My Political Journey | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
A Challenge on Barack Obama & The Black Papers feat Dr. David Johns | Angela Rye SoloPod