The IWW Trial The IWW Trial
The great and sensational case of the United States of America vs. William D. Haywood et al. resulted in a verdict of "Guilty" against the one hundred defendants who finally fa...
Apr 24, 2009 / Feature / Victor S. Yarros
Court Packing Plan: Hughes Checkmates the President Court Packing Plan: Hughes Checkmates the President
Even FDR can't win them all.
Apr 24, 2009 / Feature / Robert S. Allen
Watergate: The Mafia Metaphor Watergate: The Mafia Metaphor
Ron Ziegler may have called it a third-rate burglary, but the men who broke in to the Democratic National Committee headquarters all had a connection to the president's re-election...
Apr 24, 2009 / Feature / The Editors
Lattimore Case: McCarthy’s Vicious Retreat Lattimore Case: McCarthy’s Vicious Retreat
Tailgunner Joe meets his match in the professorial China hand, who won't surrender to the Senator's bullying.
Apr 23, 2009 / Feature / Willard Shelton
The ‘Checkers’ Speech: A Handbook for Demagogues The ‘Checkers’ Speech: A Handbook for Demagogues
Richard Nixon saved his candidacy with his "Checkers" speech. He also gave the nation a lesson in political demagogy.
Apr 23, 2009 / Norman Redlich
We Enter WWI: The American Tradition and the War We Enter WWI: The American Tradition and the War
The past months have witnessed a rebirth of American patriotism. Many of us had been taking the United States almost for granted. It had been to us something like a club in whi...
Apr 23, 2009 / Frederick Lewis Allen
The Detroit Sit-In Strike The Detroit Sit-In Strike
Detroit, and the labor movement itself, is transformed forever, when workers sit down at their jobs at the Briggs Manufacturing Company.
Apr 23, 2009 / Feature / Samuel Romer
The Potsdam Decision The Potsdam Decision
The future of Germany and the chances of a lasting peace in Europe are intertwined. Potsdam took care of one and made a start on the other.
Apr 23, 2009 / Feature / The Editors
SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters SNCC: The Battle-Scarred Youngsters
A report from the front lines of the civil rights battle in Greenwood, Mississippi—a very dangerous place to be.
Apr 23, 2009 / Feature / Howard Zinn
Wilson Fails to Bring True Liberalism Wilson Fails to Bring True Liberalism
The disaster at Versailles is as much President Wilson's failure as it is any other's.
Apr 23, 2009 / A. A. Berle, Jr.