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Cracked Up Sentencing: The Establishment and Maintenance of Discrepancies in Federal Cocaine Sentencing Structures in the 1980s and 1990s
(2017-12)
During his tenure in office, Ronald Reagan mounted a punitive war against drug use in the United States. This crusade included the vast sentencing discrepancy between powder and crack cocaine, which is the focus of this ...
"Shackles of Civilization": Race and American Imperialism in Haiti, 1915-1934
(2018-12-01)
The United States, in its administration of Haiti from 1915 to 1934 effectively exported pre-existing ideas about the inferiority of non-white peoples to the island republic. The American occupation failed to create a ...
"Living Beyond the Sky": The Long Removals of the Wyandot Indians, 1816-1894
(2019-05-01)
In 1816, the Wyandot Indians lived and claimed title to much of the contested Ohio country. By 1894, after a series of removals, they resided in northeastern Indian Territory on a reservation of twenty-thousand acres. The ...