Nothing to Write Home About by Laura Ishiguro
In the context of surging interests in reconciliation and decolonization, settler colonialism increasingly occupies political, public, and academic conversations.
Mad Dogs and Other New Yorkers By Jessica Wang
Rabies enjoys a fearsome and lurid reputation. Throughout the decades of spiraling growth that defined New York City from the 1840s to the 1910s, the bone-chilling cry of “Mad dog!” possessed the power to upend the ordinary routines and rhythms of urban life.
Youth Squad by Tamara Myers
Starting in the 1930s, urban police forces from New York City to Montreal to Vancouver established youth squads and crime prevention programs, dramatically changing the nature of contact between cops and kids. Gone was the beat officer who scared children and threatened youth.