The Hubris of a President The Hubris of a President
The man who reported on the Third Reich for CBS finds some disturbing parallels between the Nixon administration and the Nazi government.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / William L. Shirer
Morse and the Telegraph Morse and the Telegraph
The great portrait painter and inventor who will forever be memorialized in a series of dots and dashes.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
A. Philip Randolph: Brotherhood Except for Negroes A. Philip Randolph: Brotherhood Except for Negroes
The head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters takes on FDR.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / Jonathan Daniels
Oswald Villard, the NAACP and The Nation Oswald Villard, the NAACP and The Nation
In 1909, when the founders of the NAACP needed help organizing their new civil rights group, they reached out to Oswald Garrison Villard, The Nation's future editor and owner.
Jul 2, 2009 / Feature / Flint Kellogg
Susan B. Anthony: The Good Fanatic Susan B. Anthony: The Good Fanatic
She was a fanatic but "a good fanatic" in the fight for women's freedom.
Jul 2, 2009 / Feature / Freda Kirchwey
Off Dead Center: William Appleman Williams Off Dead Center: William Appleman Williams
William Appleman Williams and the tragedy of American diplomacy.
Jul 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
The Death of Cardozo The Death of Cardozo
He may have been one of the 'nine old men' of the Supreme Court, but he was a great old man.
Jun 25, 2009 / Feature / Oswald Garrison Villard
Winston Churchill in War and Peace Winston Churchill in War and Peace
Harold Laski profiles the British leader whose iron will galvanized Britain and saved Europe from Nazism.
Jun 25, 2009 / Feature / Harold J. Laski
The Fall of Joe Louis The Fall of Joe Louis
James T. Farrell watches as the Brown Bomber becomes the Brown Bombed at the hands of Max Schmeling.
Jun 25, 2009 / Feature / James T. Farrell
Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud
The pioneering psychoanalyst suffered so greatly in his last years that his death comes as a great relief to his friends
Jun 25, 2009 / Feature / Karl Menninger