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Patrick Reilly studies US history at Vanderbilt University, with a focus on law, race, and the built environment.
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General History March 8, 2021

The Next Shift

The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

Gabriel Winant

Hosted by Patrick Reilly
In his book The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Healthcare in Rust Belt America (Harvard University Press, 2021), Gabriel Winant explains how the social reproductive …
General History August 10, 2020

Building the Ivory Tower

Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century

LaDale Winling

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Universities have become state-like entities, possessing their own hospitals, police forces, and real estate companies. To become such behemoths, higher education institutions relied on the state for resources and authority …
General History July 23, 2020

Beyond the Usual Beating

The Jon Burge Police Torture Scandal and Social Movements For Police Accountability in Chicago

Andrew S. Baer

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In the 1970s and 1980s, a group of Chicago police officers routinely tortured criminal suspects in their custody, while fellow cops, state attorneys and elected officials looked the other way …
General History November 5, 2019

Badges Without Borders

How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

Stuart Schrader

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Following World War II, in the midst of global decolonization and intensifying freedom struggles within its borders, the United States developed a worldwide police assistance program that aimed to crush …
General History August 22, 2019

Occupied Territory

Policing Black Chicago From Red Summer to Black Power

Simon Balto

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Recent scholarship locates the origins of mass incarceration in national anticrime policy from 1960 to 1990, and has drastically reframed the “punitive turn” in American politics as bipartisan. But how …