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Olivia Paschal
Olivia Paschal is a writer and PhD candidate in History at the University of Virginia.
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What Has His Billion Dollars Made of Him?
Finding shades of Elon Musk in Upton Sinclair’s 1937 novel about Henry Ford.
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March 5, 2026
Who Owns the Mountains?
Hurricane Helene has revived urgent questions about the politics of land — and tourism — in Appalachia.
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New York Review of Books
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November 3, 2024
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The Forebears of J.D. Vance and the New Right
Revisiting the Agrarian-Distributists and their fabrication of an American past.
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September 3, 2024
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The Black Press Provides a Model for How Mainstream News Can Better Cover Racism
Digging deeper, offering historical context and going beyond official narratives will better serve the audience.
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Made By History
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February 17, 2022
The Coin Standard
On the failed dreams and forgotten ruins of William Hope Harvey.
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Lapham’s Quarterly
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December 15, 2021
"Once Everybody Left, What Were We Left With?"
Over a 100 years ago, white mobs organized by white elites and planters in Arkansas swarmed into rural Black sharecropping communities in the Arkansas Delta.
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Olivia Paschal Blog
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October 14, 2021
The Long Road to Nuclear Justice for the Marshallese People
U.S. nuclear weapons testing displaced residents of the Marshall Islands. They're still fighting for justice for the devastation of their homeland and health.
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Olivia Paschal
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Facing South
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April 2, 2021
Arkansas' Phillips County Remembers the Racial Massacre America Forgot
The recent commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the bloody Elaine Massacre sought to correct the historical record and start hard conversations.
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Olivia Paschal
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Facing South
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October 4, 2019
How to Change Policy Without Politicians
As Arkansas politics becomes more conservative, voters are using the ballot for progressive ends.
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The Atlantic
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May 18, 2019