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5 October 2007
Fifty
years since school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas
29 September 2007
Interview
with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of
American Trotskyism--Part 2
28 September 2007
Interview
with Bryan Palmer, biographer of James P. Cannon, founder of
American Trotskyism--Part 1
18 September 2007
A fighter for Marxism in America
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary
Left, 1890-1928, by Bryan D. Palmer. University of Illinois
Press, 2007, 542 pp.
5 October 2006
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander
Hamilton and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound
Sovereignty
History of an early American uprising
27 July 2006
Declassified
archives document ties between CIA and Nazis
8 November 2005
Rosa
Parks and the lessons of the civil rights movement
6 August 2005
Sixty years since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings
Part one: Prompt and utter destruction
30 September 2004
Citizen
of the world: a brief survey of the life and times of Thomas
Paine (1737-1809)
11 June 2004
US
Justice Department opens investigation into the 1955 murder of
Emmett Till
12 December 2003
On
the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination
3 December 2003
The
California recall in historical perspective: Lessons of Upton
Sinclair's 1934 campaign
22 November 2003
Reflections
on the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination
30 November 2002
When the music's over, turn out the lights
Standing in the Shadow of Motown, directed by Paul Justman
13 November 2002
TV film on death of Frank Olson
German documentary charges US used biological weapons in Korean
War
4 October 2002
The
war against Iraq and America's drive for world domination
16 May 2002
On
the labor party question in the US
6 March 2002
It didn't happen here: Why socialism failed in the
United States
The failure of reformism, not socialism
9 February 2002
Ken Burns' Mark Twain: a not quite unflinching
portrait
8 February 2002
"Strange
Fruit": the story of a song
8 September 2001
A landmark in the fight against capital punishment
in the US
Lessons of the 1924 Leopold and Loeb murder case
9 April 2001
Background to the 2000 US election
Florida's legacy of voter disenfranchisement
7 March 2001
A presidential family in time of war:
A Review of PBS television's Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House
Divided
7 February 2001
The Cuban missile crisis in historical perspective:
some thoughts on the film Thirteen Days
6 January 2001
The
death of former New York Mayor John Lindsay and the passing of
liberalism
21 December 2000
A lesson from history on the US election crisis
Hayes-Tilden dispute of 1876 foreshadowed eruption of class conflict
29 June 2000
An assessment of Peter Novick's The Holocaust in
American Life
10 May 2000
Lincoln
letters posted on Library of Congress web site
2 February 2000
"Witness": An important chapter in US history
New York photo exhibit on lynchings
27 May 1999
Documentary
on Douglas MacArthur raises issues of contemporary importance
17 May 1999
Lessons
of the Spanish-American War, the first US "humanitarian"
intervention
24 March 1999
Account of McCarthy period slanders socialist opponents
of Stalinism
A Review of Ellen Schrecker's Many are the Crimes: McCarthyism
in America
19 February 1999
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Book examines persecution of Pennsylvania miners
31 December 1998
The
Jefferson-Hemings controversy: In defense of history
21 August 1998
The
press and US militarism -- a lesson from history
21 April 1998
Book review:
"Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off
a Struggle for the Soul of America", by J. Anthony Lukas
A moralizing view of the 1906-07 frame-up
of Bill Haywood
12 February 1996
Syndicalism, Stalinism and the American working class
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