In 1904, the El Paso Herald called for “a barb wire fence along our side of the Rio Grande” to keep out “undesirable aliens.” The newspaper wasn’t referring to Mexicans, but to Chinese immigrants, ...

This did not mean that the company was trading with the enemy. Allentown Barb Wire, by then a subsidiary of U.S Steel known as the American Steel and Wire Company, had been around since the 1880s and ...

Glidden was an American farmer originally from Charlestown, New Hampshire. After growing up in Clarendon, New York, and finishing school, he returned to his father’s farm to work, according to ...

Drive down just about any country road and you’ll see it. You may have never thought it would be worthy of a large museum, but then again, you probably never imagined this had such a long and storied ...

"Barbed wire excludes and includes. Its function is always to magnify the difference between the inside and the outside," writes historian and philosopher Razac in his brief but startling study of an ...

The conspicuous presence of barbed wire in Australian immigration detention centres, such as Rudd’s newly re-opened Curtin detention centre, is a reminder of the inhuman pedigree of these grim despair ...

Barbed wire came to be known as the “ devil's rope” and violent battles between farmers and cattlemen erupted as it stretched its way across the Great Plains. At one point in the controversy, laws ...

The halls inside Texas A&M University’s Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management are being adorned with displays showcasing historical strands of barbed wire meant to connect ...

There is an old adage that says, “Change begins at the ballot box,” which could not be further from the truth. Change begins with human ingenuity, which affects how we live our lives, which — at some ...

For Lynn Hawkins, the bumper sticker on his pickup truck says it all: “Get Hooked On Barbed Wire.” Hawkins, of rural Sturgis, has been hooked on collecting all types of barbed wire – and its history – ...

Citations: Bernstein, Shana B.. 2019. Book review, Nature Behind Barbed Wire: an Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration. Immigration and Ethnic History.