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Joshua Specht

Red Meat Republic: A hoof-to-table history of how beef changed America by Joshua Specht

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November 2019, no. 416
Cameo Dalley reviews 'Red Meat Republic: A hoof-to-table history of how beef changed America' by Joshua Specht

During a steamy Brisbane summer in the early 1990s, my father planned an outing for his preteen children, an adventure that would punctuate an otherwise predictable cycle of sleepovers, movies, and trips to the swimming pool. At the time, Dad was a board member of the Queensland Abattoir Corporation, and his idea of entertainment was a guided tour of the nearby Cann ...

A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin

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April 2019, no. 410
Joshua Specht reviews 'A People’s History of Computing in the United States' by Joy Lisi Rankin

According to most accounts, the history of computing is a triumph of enterprise. This story starts in the 1950s and 1960s with commercial mainframe computers that, one stack of punch-cards at a time, assumed business tasks ranging from managing airline reservations to calculating betting odds ...

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The Indian World of George Washington: The first president, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation by by Colin G. Calloway

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December 2018, no. 407
Joshua Specht reviews 'The Indian World of George Washington: The first president, the first Americans, and the birth of the nation' by Colin G. Calloway

As a young man, George Washington (1732–99) worked as a surveyor. Looking at a landscape, he could plan its division into orderly tracts. These skills would prove useful when he became the first president of the United States in April 1789. At the time ...

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