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When the Government Supported Writers
Government support created jobs, built trust, and invigorated American literature. We should try it again.
by
Max Holleran
via
The New Republic
on
June 15, 2021
Cameras for Class Struggle
How the radical documentarians of the Workers' Film and Photo League put their art in the service of social movements.
by
Max Pearl
via
Art In America
on
April 21, 2021
Richard Wright's Newly Uncut Novel Offers a Timely Depiction of Police Brutality
'The Man Who Lived Underground,' newly expanded from a story into a novel by the Library of America, may revise the seminal Black author's reputation.
by
Sonaiya Kelley
via
Los Angeles Times
on
April 19, 2021
Who Were the Scottsboro Nine?
The young black men served a combined total of 130 years for a crime they never committed.
by
Alice George
via
Smithsonian
on
March 23, 2021
Solidarity Now
An experiment in oral history of the present.
by
Wen Stephenson
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The Baffler
on
January 15, 2021
Did Communists Really Infiltrate American Schools?
Fears that teachers were indoctrinating kids were rampant in the 1950s. But the reality was more complicated.
by
Erin Blakemore
,
Jonathan Hunt
via
JSTOR Daily
on
December 3, 2020
A More Perfect Union
On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.
by
Arvind Dilawar
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
November 16, 2020
Black Americans in the Popular Front Against Fascism
The era of anti-fascist struggle was a crucial moment for Black radicals of all stripes.
by
Mohammed Elnaiem
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 12, 2020
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New York Tenants Are Organizing Against Evictions, as They Did in the Great Depression
Activists concerned about pandemic-related homelessness are seeking rent relief. In the 1930s, tenants banded together against evictions.
via
Retro Report
on
November 11, 2020
Ben Fletcher's One Big Union
The hugely influential but largely forgotten labor leader Ben Fletcher couldn’t be more relevant to the most urgent political projects of today.
by
Robin D. G. Kelley
via
Dissent
on
October 29, 2020
Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?
The “Middle Class Nation” and “American Exceptionalism” found each other late, and under specific circumstances.
by
David R. Roediger
via
Literary Hub
on
September 28, 2020
Joseph McCarthy and the Force of Political Falsehoods
McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
July 27, 2020
Stymieing the People
A Review of "Design for the Crowd: Patriotism and Protest in Union Square."
by
Thai Jones
via
The Metropole
on
June 3, 2020
One Parallel for the Coronavirus Crisis? The Great Depression
“The idea that the federal government would be providing emergency relief and emergency work was extraordinary,” one sociologist said. “And people liked it.”
by
Livia Gershon
via
JSTOR Daily
on
May 20, 2020
The Lessons of the Great Depression
In the 1930s, Americans responded to economic calamity by creating a richer and more equitable society. We can do it again.
by
Lizabeth Cohen
via
The Atlantic
on
May 17, 2020
The Dark History of America’s First Female Terrorist Group
The women of May 19th bombed the U.S. Capitol and plotted Henry Kissinger’s murder. But they’ve been long forgotten.
by
William Roseneau
via
Politico Magazine
on
May 3, 2020
What Endures of the Romance of American Communism
Many of the Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.
by
Vivian Gornick
via
New York Review of Books
on
April 3, 2020
Writing Gay History
How the story itself came out.
by
Jim Downs
via
Humanities
on
June 27, 2019
"Native Son" and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright
Novelist Richard Wright yearned to break into film, but Hollywood's censorship of black stories left his aspirations unfulfilled.
by
Anna Shechtman
via
The New Yorker
on
April 4, 2019
America’s Missing Labor Party
The history of labor strikes shows that, in order to achieve lasting success, workers need to capture political power.
by
David Sessions
via
The New Republic
on
October 2, 2018
We Really Still Need Howard Zinn
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on why it's so important to tell the stories of people who have fueled social justice movements.
by
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
via
Literary Hub
on
September 27, 2018
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Fight for American Democracy
With democracy in peril, Du Bois reminds us of the long fight to protect it.
by
Chad Williams
via
Made By History
on
August 27, 2018
Infiltrating the Left
The FBI has long tried to destroy socialist organizations, but its actions aren't limited to surveillance.
by
Aaron J. Leonard
,
Micah Uetricht
via
Jacobin
on
August 19, 2018
Spotlighting Communism & Hollywood in the Papers of Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper
The actor who played the loveable grocer found his way to Sesame Street after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.
via
American Heritage Center Blog
on
April 18, 2018
‘The Snake’: How Trump Appropriated a Radical Black Singer’s Lyrics
A former communist from Chicago wrote the song in the 1960s, decades before Trump turned it into an anti-immigrant fable.
by
Eli Rosenberg
via
Washington Post
on
February 24, 2018
The FBI's War on Black-Owned Bookstores
At the height of the Black Power movement, the Bureau focused on the unlikeliest of public enemies: black independent booksellers.
by
Joshua Clark Davis
via
The Atlantic
on
February 19, 2018
A Homecoming for Murray Kempton
Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.
by
Andrew Holter
via
Lapham’s Quarterly
on
December 13, 2017
The Panthers and the Patriots
The story of how a group of poor whites in Chicago united with the Black Panthers to fight racism and capitalism.
by
Michael McCanne
via
Jacobin
on
May 19, 2017
The Curious Death of Oppenheimer’s Mistress
Who killed J. Robert Oppenheimer's Communist lover?
by
Alex Wellerstein
via
Restricted Data: The Nuclear Secrecy Blog
on
December 11, 2015
Woody Guthrie: Folk Hero
Guthrie challenged the commercial aesthetic of the pre-rock era through a performance style that was almost combatively anti-musical.
by
David Hajdu
via
The New Yorker
on
March 21, 2004
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