history
Sidney Finkelstein: an appreciation of the great Marxist cultural critic
January 19, 2018The Marxist cultural critic Sidney Finkelstein lived in a suitcase in my mother’s closet.
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Historians find parallels between Hitler’s Nazis and today’s “alt-right”
January 11, 2018A panel of historians says there are more parallels than people realize between the U.S. alt-right and the real Nazis—the ones led by Hitler from the 1920s to 1945.
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Historians look back on 1968 tumult and its lasting impact
January 8, 20181968…the year all hell broke loose worldwide, or so it seemed then.
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This week in history: Three new national legacy monuments
January 8, 2018Trump and his pro-corporate cabinet members are trying to severely shrink the acreage in national monuments.
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This week in history: Indictments for conspiracy against draft laws
January 4, 2018It was the height of the Vietnam War and resistance to the war and the draft was widespread.
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