Monthly Archives: September 2011

The Points Interview: David Herzberg

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

Editors’ Note: We’re delighted to bring Points readers another installment (number sixteen) in the “Points Interview” series.  Today, we’re getting happy with David Herzberg, author of Happy Pills in America: From Miltown to Prozac (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009).  … Continue reading →

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Points on Blogs: Sterling on Justice and Drugs

Posted on September 29, 2011 by

The contemporary drug law reform movement holds varying levels of interest for historians of drugs and alcohol.  Drugs historians with an interest in modern drug policy are more likely to find would-be reformers relevant as both subjects and audience; for … Continue reading →

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Cross-Posting: Nicholas Montemarano’s “Alcoholics Anonymous (1939), i.e. The Big Book”

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

Editor’s Note:  Points today presents a cross-posting from Frequencies, an online “genealogy of spirituality” curated by Kathryn Lofton and John Lardas Modern as part of the Social Science Research Council’s (SSRC) Working Group on Spirituality, Political Engagement, and Public Life.  … Continue reading →

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Myths of Mexico: The U.S. Media’s Simplistic Depiction of the “Drug War”

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Guest blogging at Points today is Michelle García, journalist, film maker, and the co-founder and director of the Border Mobile Journalism Collective, a citizen journalism video project on the U.S.-Mexico border created in collaboration with the National Black … Continue reading →

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What is “AA History”?

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Following up on last week’s post about the Alcoholics Anonymous National Archives Workshop, Points this week welcomes the comments of Guest Blogger Ernie Kurtz, the author of Not-God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous (1979) and the pre-eminent historian … Continue reading →

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Michelle Bachman, Gardasil, and the Politics of Experience

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

Editor’s note: Contributing Editor Joe Gabriel’s fantastic “ripped-from-the-headlines” post appeared earlier this week, only to be buried by even more timely content on “The Stoned Ages.”  We’ve put it at the top of the page again so it can enjoy … Continue reading →

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Freaky Friday: *Go Ask Alice* Forty Years Later

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: Former Contributing Editor, now Esteemed Guest Blogger Brian Herrera reminds us all what to do when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead.  His meditation is cross-posted from his Performations blog. Forty years ago, Go Ask Alice was … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Drugs and Drink in Asia

Posted on September 23, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: We’re posting a just-issued call for papers for a conference (“Drugs and Drink in Asia: New Perspectives from History”) to be held at Shanghai University through the David F. Musto Center for Drug Policy Studies.  As one of … Continue reading →

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Teaching Points: “Narcotic Hedonism: American Drug Use”– Commentary on the Class

Posted on September 21, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: In the second part of their contribution to the “Teaching Points” series, Wesleyan University seniors Robert Echeverria and Siddhanth Issar meditate on the challenges and promises of a peer-led pedagogy of alcohol and drugs history.  The syllabus for … Continue reading →

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The Stoned Ages

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Editor’s Note: This early posting on the HNN documentary “The Stoned Ages,” does not discuss the show’s content.  For commentary and analysis of the show, and a few links for further reading, click here. Programming alert! Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, September … Continue reading →

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