history
Lessons from the time 250,000 workers shut down Canada’s largest city
October 25, 2021October 25, 1996. As I made my way through Toronto’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose eerie silence was notable. There were no buses, no delivery vans, no garbage...
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Historian Enrique Rivera says the history of capitalism needs a fresh narrative
October 25, 2021International Publishers in New York has recently issued The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution by the young scholar Enrique S. Rivera. As a fellow student of Latin American history (a long...
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Liam O’Flaherty and the Irish Free State on its centennial
October 21, 2021Liam O’Flaherty is one of the foremost Irish fiction writers of the 20th century. Like none other, he commented on the times as they were unfolding.
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On anniversary of Elaine race massacre, Arkansas community says reparations are due
October 8, 2021Sept. 30, 2021, marked the 102nd anniversary of the 1919 Elaine Race Massacre in Arkansas.
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Recalling Victor Klemperer (1881-1960) and his ‘Language of the Third Reich’
October 7, 2021Victor Klemperer is remembered for his seminal study of the language of the Nazis.
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