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Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville

… period that classical statuary itself began to take on new meaning. Greek and Roman statues now epitomized the physical … in Nashville, TN. But even as we continue to debate the meaning and values of “Western Civilization,” we also need … used to interrogate their world to unmask the distorted meaning being made of their legacy today. Read and Listen …
Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… Coming Home , 1996 On April 19, 1995, a date fraught with meaning for American white supremacists, former soldier …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… and immigrants at the turn of the century, police brutality plagued cities as well. Newspapers noted the frequency with … of law” meant. It had long been construed as “legally,” meaning it could not apply to the clearly illegal actions of … a stolen car on foot. Black leaders in Memphis, a city long plagued by police brutality, called for a boycott on white …
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War

Crimea: A General Introduction

Review of Crimea: A History, by Neil Kent London: Hurst & Company, 2016.
… Putin is affiliated. It is absolutely critical to a meaningful study of Crimea that these be distinguished …
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
… discrimination, segregation, and economic hardship still plague our society especially in American cities, where … analysis of that approach or its implications for creating meaningful change both in Weaver's lifetime and the future.  …