Policing The Automobile: “Private” Transit In “Public” Spaces?

by Sarah A. Seo

"As much as courts throughout the twentieth century sought to differentiate cars from houses, the automobile straddled the public/private divide in American life." argues professor Sarah A. Seo.

She's Rising from the Depths of Soviet Music History

by Gabrielle Cornish

Interest is building in Galina Ustvolskaya, the reclusive Russian composer born 100 years ago whose nickname was “the lady with the hammer.”

The Forgotten History of America’s Worst Racial Massacre

by Nan Elizabeth Woodruff

Hundreds of black citizens were killed in Elaine, Arkansas, a century ago this week.

Titan crane receives international heritage honour

THE Titan crane in Clydebank, the world’s first giant electrically-powered cantilever crane, will today receive the same international heritage honour as held by the Eiffel Tower in Paris.The 106-year-old former shipyard crane on the River Clyde will be designated as an international historic civil engineering landmark by four leading civil and mechanical engineering institutions.The crane, which became a visitor attraction in 2007, helped to fit out some of the world’s biggest battleships and liners, such as the Queen Mary, QE2 at the John Brown’s shipyard....