On first view! 1980s California saw both calls for larger police budgets and limits on taxes. Apparently at odds, David Helps reveals the conflicted relations between “neoliberal” austerity and carceral state-building. Link Below.

Excited to announce four new additions to our editorial board: 2: Gretchen Heefner! Heefner researches the history of the U.S. in the world, focusing on militarization, the environment, and the intimate relations between national security and the everyday. Profile Below

Excited to announce four new additions to our editorial board: 1: Jonathan Bell! Bell is a historian of US politics since the New Deal. His book, The Health Care Closet, unites rights and health care politics to understand the sexual/gender dynamics of medical care since the 1960s. Profile Below

On First View! In 1961, the “Elkton Three”—three veterans of pacifist and civil rights movements—refused to leave a racially segregated restaurant in Maryland. @vwidgeon.bsky.social shows how their improvised protest drew attention to the anti-racist cause. Link Below.

On First View! The Woodlands, Texas, has long been considered an example of early sustainable urban design. Here, Andrew Busch uses a scalar perspective to argue instead that this town hindered sustainability and increased inequality in Houston. Link Below.

In 1985, some of the first children of Chinese American immigrants—who were themselves blocked from voting—exercised their birthright citizenship and signed up to vote. @migrantherstory.bsky.social shows that nativists failed to disenfranchise them and yet left a racist legacy. Link Below.

On First View! @eyellin.bsky.social argues that even though Jewish residents of DC remembered restrictive housing covenants discriminating against Black and Jewish home seekers in equal measure, telling these histories separately reveals more about both groups’ experiences. Link Below.