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What Can We Learn From Utopians of the Past?

Four nineteenth-century authors offered blueprints for a better world—but their progressive visions had a dark side.

by Adam Gopnik via The New Yorker on July 30, 2018

Eugene V. Debs campaigning to crowd

When America's Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I

After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws.

by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on June 15, 2018

The Soviet Anthology of “Negro Poetry”

In the 1930s, Soviet leaders decided that black American authors could teach Russians “to write social poetry.”

by Jennifer Wilson via The Paris Review on May 15, 2018

Blurry photo of shelves of food in a supermarket aisle.

The Great American Supermarket Lie

Instead of highlighting the glories of capitalism, supermarkets expose the inequalities it creates.

by Shane Hamilton via Made By History on April 27, 2018

Fighting Words

No, “liberal” and “progressive” aren’t synonyms. They have completely different histories—and the differences matter.

by Sean Wilentz via Democracy Journal on March 20, 2018

Black and Red

The history of Black Socialism in America.

by Tanna Tucker, Nestor Castillo via The Nib on February 14, 2018

A souvenir superbowl 53 football outside of a stadium

The NFL: America’s Socialist Utopia

The Super Bowl might be a capitalist bonanza — but its creation was the ultimate socialist act.

by Jesse Berrett via Made By History on February 2, 2018

The World the Cold War Built

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.

by Leon Hadar via The American Conservative on January 31, 2018

John Dewey's Experiment in Democratic Socialism

Despite his reputation as a liberal, Dewey's staunch commitment to democracy put him on a collision course with capitalism.

by Alexander Livingston, Ed Quish via Jacobin on January 8, 2018

How Trump Is Making Us Rethink American Exceptionalism

This past year has shown that the U.S. is far from immune to the forces shaping the rest of the world.

by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on January 7, 2018

Rexford Guy Tugwell and the Case for Big Urbanism

New York City’s first planning commissioner lost a bigger battle against Robert Moses than the fight Jane Jacobs won.

by Garrett Dash Nelson via Places Journal on January 1, 2018

Street Fighting Woman

A new biography of Lucy Parsons makes it clear that the activist deserves attention apart from her more well-known husband.

by Eric Foner via New York Review of Books on December 21, 2017

The Cold War and the Welfare State

If you look hard enough, you can almost find ideological consistency in the Republicans’ breathtaking tax bill.

by Nils Gilman via The American Interest on December 4, 2017

The Ballot and the Break

Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party, the most successful labor party in US history, is rich in lessons for challenging the two-party system.

by Eric Blanc via Jacobin on December 4, 2017

Our Cold War World

How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on October 30, 2017

Marx in the United States

A conversation with the author of a forthcoming book about the twists and turns of Marx's legacy in America.

by Andrew Hartman, Magnus Møller Ziegler, Tobias Dias via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on October 4, 2017

Repressing Radicalism

The Espionage Act turns 100 today. It helped destroy the Socialist Party of America and quashes free speech to this day.

by Chip Gibbons via Jacobin on June 15, 2017

A group of female workers at a protest in Russia.

The Socialist Origins of International Women’s Day

From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.

by Cintia Frencia, Daniel Gaido via Jacobin on March 8, 2017

Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.

by Judith Stein, Connor Kilpatrick via Jacobin on September 6, 2016

Cover of Rafael Rojas' new book.

Words are the Weapons, the Weapons Must Go

A review of Rafael Rojas’s "Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution."

by Patrick Iber via Los Angeles Review of Books on April 28, 2016

Policemen confronting a crowd of protesters

How a Revolutionary Was Born

Carl Skoglund's early life as a militant worker in Sweden prepared him for leadership in the 1934 Teamster Strikes.

by Joe Allen via Jacobin on December 21, 2015

Killing Reconstruction

During Reconstruction, elites used racist appeals to silence calls for redistribution and worker empowerment.

by Heather Cox Richardson via Jacobin on August 19, 2015

Painting of Woody Guthrie smoking a cigarette while playing a guitar.

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

Parade of cars with Donald Trump flags and American flags.

The “Fascist” With a Popular Majority

Donald Trump’s victory will inevitably reopen the “fascism debate.” But does a populist whose appeal cuts across diverse groups truly fit the fascist profile?

by Tristan Hughes via Jacobin on November 19, 2024

Angela Davis standing at podium, speaking at Communist Party USA event.

How and Why American Communism Failed

Plus: One historian’s about-face on the Communist record.

by Ronald Radosh via The Bulwark on August 2, 2024

The flags of the USA and the USSR.

Cold War Tones

Two books that remind us that tone and timbre, musical style and sound, matter to history.

by Michael J. Kramer via Society for U.S. Intellectual History on July 28, 2024

Engraving of the Battle of Lexington After Alonzo Chappel: American colonists and British soldiers exchange fire at the Battle of Lexington, the first skirmish in the US War of Independence.

Taking Up the American Revolution’s Egalitarian Legacy

Despite its failures and limitations, the American Revolution unleashed popular aspirations to throw off tyranny of all kinds.

by Taylor Clark via Jacobin on July 4, 2024

Still from Pretty Poison (1968).

The All-American Crack-Up in 1960s Hollywood Cinema

Starting in the 1960s, more and more Hollywood films depicted an increasingly violent and alienated American society quickly losing its mind.

by Eileen Jones via Jacobin on May 24, 2024

Pope Francis.

Whatever Happened to the Language of Peace?

Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.

by Sohrab Ahmari via New Statesman on May 8, 2024

Man holding Israel flag and Palestine flag

Who Created the Israel-Palestine Conflict?

It wasn’t really Jews or Palestinians. It was the U.S. Congress, which closed American borders 100 years ago this month.

by Harold Meyerson via The American Prospect on May 6, 2024

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