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The Blues Behind Bars: How Southern prisons shaped American music
Incarcerated musicians have crafted some of the most iconic songs in American music history while prisons reap the profits.
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The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.
We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction
Critics of crime fiction dismiss the genre as hopelessly reactionary, but its history tells a different story. From hard-boiled American detective novels to the explosion of Scandi-noir, crime fiction has been deeply influenced by socialist writers.
ChatGPT Isn’t Coming for Your Coding Job
New technologies have long promised to make human software engineers redundant. But developers have only gotten more important over time.
Op-Ed
Anti-apartheid divestment built a movement of people. That’s what the climate crisis needs.
The Second Ku Klux Klan: How It Gained Social and Political Power Among White Protestants
The KKK became one of the most powerful social and political movements in the US.
The GOP’s New, NEW Jim Crow
One of this administration’s biggest goals is enacting a 21st-century Jim Crow era. And with SCOTUS poised to further dismantle the Voting Rights Act, they may just pull it off.
About Me
Zeb Larson is a writer and historian based in Columbus, Ohio. He received a PhD in History from The Ohio State University in 2019, where he studied the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. Today, he works as a software engineer by day and as a freelance writer, historian, and curriculum developer whenever he has the time. He writes about activism, history, food, and music and is available to speak or even just chat on a whole host of different topics.
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