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Featured image: Cate Blanchett as Phyllis Schlafly. FX Network. Retrieved from Indie Wire.

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In April 2020, FX released the nine-part series Mrs. America on Hulu. The show, which portrays the fight for and against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, features a star-studded cast, including Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Uzo Aduba, Elizabeth Banks, Tracy Ullman, and Sarah Paulson. Created by former Mad Men writer Davhi Waller, the show has a Mad Men-like ability to capture the spirit and feel of the era – using music, wardrobe, and even Blanchett’s clipped accent in portraying Phyllis Schlafly – to bring the audience into the past.

Much has been written about the quality of the writing and performances from television critics’ perspective, in such venues as the New York Times, NPR, and Rolling Stone. Media outlets have also dissected the show’s historical accuracy from the big moments down to the minutiae, the best of which appears in Slate’s What’s Fact and What’s Fiction series. While the show goes to considerable length to maintain historical accuracy, even delivering lines verbatim from recordings and historical documents, it does, of course, take liberties for the sake of drama and storytelling. In particular, Sarah Paulson’s Schlafly-acolyte character Alice is not based on a real person, allowing her character to be used as a vehicle for moments of interpersonal drama.

But beyond dissecting the script and period-piece wigs for accuracy, what can the show tell us about the broader and more nuanced historical context of the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment? Where does it shine and where does it fall short? And what should we take away from the show, and its real history, to better understand our present?

Phyllis Schlafly and The Campaign Against the ERA

“Let me tell you the truth about Phyllis Schlafly. She’s a liar, a fearmonger, and a con artist, but worst of all, she’s a goddamn feminist. She might be one

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A groundbreaking study that

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
August 13, 2011
In brief: I felt this was an adequate, often fascinating summary of human habitation of the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans as understood by present-day historians and scientists. I was happy to see that Mann highlighted controversial areas without simply adopting one side of any given controversy, and in general it seemed like a balanced, well-researched book. That said, there were numerous peccadillos.

Mann starts with the basic assertion that the West's primary mistake in our conception of American Indians is that we have generally seen them as unchanging features in a primeval wilderness. This, he argues, is dehumanizing, regardless of whether you prefer to prefix "savage" with "noble," because a people incapable of change seems incapable of will, of thought, of ingenuity.

He attempts to dismantle this notion by presenting research supporting 3 broad ideas:

1) pre-Columbian population estimates are now assumed to be much higher than previously thought (i.e. between the time of first contact and the colony at Plymouth, humanity in the Americans witnessed a massive die-off)

2) humans were present in North America for tens of thousand of years, and the complexity of their societies were comparable with with Eurasian counterparts

3) Indians could and did exert influence over the natural world

On the whole, I think Mann made convincing arguments for the broad stokes. However, there were a number of things that set me off, most of them centering around my suspicion that Mann was trying harder to convince than reveal. Maybe this stems from his journalistic rather than academic background, but I constantly felt cajoled when what I wanted to feel was "of course!"

First of all there was the general lack of methods. Reconstructing history is a tricky business fraught with error, so when you're trying to communicate a challenging and controversial notion like the number of American In

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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus (Hardcover)
By Charles C. Mann
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A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in small, nomadic bands; and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas was, for all practical purposes, still a vast wilderness. But as Charles C. Mann now makes clear, archaeologists and anthropologists have spent the last thirty years proving these and many other long-held assumptions wrong.

In a book that startles and persuades, Mann reveals how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques came to previously unheard-of conclusions. Among them:

• In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe.
• Certain cities–such as Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital–were far greater in population than any contemporary European city. Furthermore, Tenochtitlán, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets.
• The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids.
• Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process so sophisticated that the journal Science recently described it as “man’s first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering.”
• Amazonian Indians learned how to farm the rain forest without destroying it–a process scientists are studying today in the hope of regaining this lost knowledge.
• Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisph

Reflections on thirty years