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Television and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum

August 2, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.

Cuba celebrates the rebellion that triggered a revolution

July 26, 2019 By W. T. Whitney, Jr.

At his trial, a young lawyer by the name of Fidel Castro said: "History will absolve me!"

The legacy of the militant workers of 1919 lives on

July 25, 2019 By David Cavendish

The final of a 3-part series on the strike wave of 1919.

‘The Mountain’: A disturbing feature about lobotomy in the 1950s

July 24, 2019 By Eric A. Gordon

Perhaps The Mountain can be seen as the menacing underside of the Madison Avenue success that America in the 1950s was built up to be.

How could we ever bring ourselves to join the Communist Party?

July 22, 2019 By Victor Grossman

Victor Grossman, a Cold War exile from McCarthyism, responds to Kevin Baker's New York Times book review of "A Good American Family."