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Talking Points: Naa Oyo Kwate

In celebration of the book's one-year anniversary of publication, Points is delighted to welcome Naa Oyo A. Kwate, the author of White...

Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (SHAD) Seeking Associate Book Review Editors

The journal Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (SHAD), published by University of Chicago Press, is seeking Associate Book Review...

Talking Points: Max Felker-Kantor

Points is delighted to welcome Max Felker-Kantor, Associate Professor of History at Ball State University for an interview about his new...

From the Archives: Ron Roizen Redux

Today's round-up of evergreen content from the Points archive comes to us courtesy of Ron Roizen, PhD, a sociologist who has written...

Weird, White, Toxic Tonics: A Look at Urban Wine Marketing

Naa Oyo A. Kwate is an interdisciplinary scholar and writer whose latest book is White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black...

Talking Points: Sara Black

Points is delighted to welcome Dr. Sara Black, Assistant Professor of History at Christopher Newport University, for an interview about...

Two Degrees from Samuel Hopkins Adams: Consumer Advocacy and Historical Revisionism

I met James Harvey Young, or Harvey as everyone called him, back in the early 1990s when he came to Pittsburgh to give two public...

Transforming MAT, Part II: The Swiss Way

Switzerland and Portugal are knocking it out of the park. What’s possible there that people find so impossible here?

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