History

Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North Off Camera: Civil Rights in the North

Sweet Land of Liberty is a bold, if decidedly underdramatic, rewriting of civil rights history.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Scott Saul

Inquisitions Inquisitions

From Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, tales of the Devil and wise women, torturers and the tortured.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Eduardo Galeano

The Age of Paine The Age of Paine

It was Tom Paine, ink-stained wretch and citizen of the world, who first roused American patriots to action.

Jun 3, 2009 / Books & the Arts / John Nichols

Remembering Tiananmen Square Remembering Tiananmen Square

The Tiananmen Square massacre remains shrouded in myth. This eyewitness report by a Human Rights Watch observer makes the horror plain.

Jun 2, 2009 / Feature / Robin Munro

High Tension in the Energy Debate: The Clamshell Reaction High Tension in the Energy Debate: The Clamshell Reaction

The '60s come alive again in the protest organized by the Clamshell Alliance against the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire.

May 15, 2009 / Feature / Harvey Wasserman

The Unresolved Marzani Case The Unresolved Marzani Case

The Carl Marzani case is an indication that the anti-communist hysteria has infected our judicial system.

May 15, 2009 / Feature / I.F. Stone

The Sacco and Vanzetti Cases The Sacco and Vanzetti Cases

Sacco and Vanzetti are being tried for highway robbery and murder, but the real charge is radicalism.

May 14, 2009 / Feature / Elizabeth Glendower Evans

Thoughts on the H-Bomb Thoughts on the H-Bomb

Now that the US has exploded its first hydrogen bomb, a negotiated peace with the Soviet Union is more important than ever.

May 14, 2009 / The Editors

Welch-McCarthy: Summing Up the Hearings Welch-McCarthy: Summing Up the Hearings

Before a nationally televised audience, attorney Joseph Welch utters the seven words that stick a pin in McCarthy's balloon: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"

May 14, 2009 / Feature / H. H. Wilson

Slide Show: The Nation at War Slide Show: The Nation at War

From the Civil War and D-Day to Iraq and Afghanistan, images of military conflicts and efforts to create a lasting peace.

May 14, 2009 / Photo Essay / The Nation

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