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… During the vice-presidential debate of 1988, Republican nominee Dan … evenly, “Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy; Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy!”   When Republicans singled out Barack Obama’s income-tax … Back When a Socialist Was a Socialist …

… with two planners, were hanged.  One of those executed was Aleksandr Ulyanov.  Conspirator:  Lenin in Exile , by Helen Rappaport, describes the personal … in the south of Paris.  Then, in the summer of 1912, when an upsurge in workers' protests led to a momentary …

… It can occasionally be a difficult issue to finesse. I was presiding over a classroom of about twenty undergraduate … students, trying desperately to moderate a discussion on the legacies of the civil rights movement. It started the … extensively on urban politics and liberalism, his new book, When Affirmative Action Was White (2005), jumps into the …

… Patrick Potyondy interviews historian Alice Conklin about the history and mass appeal of socialism in France . ( Image … France. But you argue for a sense of historical perspective when it comes to evaluating the election. What is France's … So at the moment of liberation in France in 1946, there was a real commitment on the part of people who'd been in …

… Although polls show that two-thirds of the American public thinks that the war in Iraq is a … president wishes to continue. This institutional limitation was demonstrated thirty-five years ago when Congress tried to stop President Nixon’s bombing of … When Congress Failed to Stop the Vietnam War …

… Many Democrats are wringing their hands over the defeat of Sen. Joseph Lieberman, whose … with the enemy and even with betrayal is hardly new. When Wisconsin’s Republican Sen. Robert La Follette blocked … his own party. During the peak of the pro-war frenzy he was spat upon in public and burned in effigy. But even …

… California has something to offer the nation as it comes to terms with last month’s Supreme … the class-action suit claimed that the State of California was denying thousands of California students their … right to a meaningful education. Ever since the 1840s, when the United States began building public education …

… seeking to alter course, Americans may wonder why the president remains so determined. They should look to the … consider the case of Cuba. From 1898 to 1959, America was steadfast in Cuba – and the result was disastrous. Much like the Bush administration in Iraq, …

… -who Should You Thank -when You Zip It Up? It wa~ ~ late Augus:, 1893 that American inventor Whitcomb Judson first received the patent for hls clasp-locker. Today, after years of … your sleeping bag without it. In its beginning, the zipper was conceived as a replacement for the long button-hooked …

… President Bush’s widely publicized reference in his State of the Union address to an “axis of evil” has frightened and confused people throughout the world. To many, Bush’s phrase appears to be a trial balloon for a much bigger war in the name of fighting international terrorism. If that is …

… This is the story of a world turned upside down. So begins The … at Yorktown. As much as the victory by the colonials was a rebuke to conventional wisdom so the battle of Adwa was to European attitudes towards Africans during the Age of … Review of The Battle of Adwa: African Victory in the Age of Empire , …

… 2019 was an important anniversary year, not only in the history of the United States but also for the genesis of … Everill argues that what we call “ethical capitalism” was envisioned by abolitionists in the eighteenth and … Review of Not Made by Slaves: Ethical Capitalism in the Age of Abolition , by Bronwen Everill (Cambridge: …

… Two minutes after the polling stations closed, we knew the winner. France has … top of the head appeared on the screen, the people's choice was instantly recognizable: in a record voter turnout (80%), … rival. And another victory quickly followed a month later when the Socialists and their allies also won an absolute …

… his new book, "Silent Spring Revolution," which chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties … in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace, but entire … Spring , published in 1962, depicted how detrimental DDT was to living creatures. The exposé launched an ecological …