From H-Net, a review of Unbecoming British: How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial Nation by Kariann Yokota. Two centuries after its publication, Founding Father Benjamin Rush’s pioneering work on mental illness prompts alarm and admiration — as well as reminders about ongoing challenges in the mental-health field. New England industrialists hired thousands of young farm girls to work together in early textile mills — and spawned a host of unintended consequences. A look at how Alamo mythology got the upper hand on its history and misled the Raccoon People. Whatever else they did, the Irish forced "America to be America". The woman who took on the tycoon: John D. Rockefeller Sr. epitomized Gilded Age capitalism — Ida Tarbell was one of the few willing to hold him accountable. From WSWS, a four-part series on the Ludlow Massacre, the Colorado miners’ strike of 1913-1914. Michael Kazin on the fall and rise of the U.S. populist Left. June 6th, 1944 and June 15th, 1944: Why does the war in Europe during WWII overshadow the Pacific war?
