Author: jjhansen22
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Burning Sage
The environmental movement was raging in the 70s and momentum was chugging along with the creation of the EPA and…
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Day Off in Kyoto, Got Bored at the Temple
Society has progressed so far in the last few hundred years; we have invented electricity, airplanes, and yet the one…
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Economic Rapture
The great economic rapture, as I am calling it, did not start with the Great Recession but this moment in…
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The Great Liberation
The Iraq War and the general “War on Terror” are often thought of as only combating terrorism, but in reality,…
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So Long, Fallwell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night!
Jerry Fallwell was a prominent figure in the Christian right, or what I would now call Big Eva, in the…
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Bethlehem to Burgers: The Forgotten Man in Western Pennsylvania
Blue-collar workers experienced a torrid time in the United States during the period of deindustrialization of the 1970s and 80s.…
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Baseball Caps and Pigeons
Throughout history and popular culture there has often been a division manufactured between what are known as the “elite doves”…
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The War on the Working Class
The Vietnam War was a great tragedy that impacted the American psyche for a multitude of generations. The lasting impact…
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SONG, SONG OF THE NORTH!
To help explain the title of this blog and for fun I wrote the chorus to mimic the song of…
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Highway to War
South Dakota during the Cold War period is an excellent example of what President Eisenhower dubbed the “military-industrial complex”. What…
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