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Adam Hochschild

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One Brief Shining Moment

Manisha Sinha’s history of Reconstruction sheds fresh light on the period that fleetingly opened a door to a different America.

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books
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on May 11, 2025
America Was at Its Trumpiest 100 Years Ago. Here’s How to Prevent the Worst.

During World War I, America lurched toward autocracy. Resistance was minimal.

by Adam Hochschild via Washington Post
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on April 3, 2025
The Making of a Cold War Spy

The life and work of Frank Wisner, one of the CIA’s founding officers, offers us a portrait of American intelligence’s excesses.

by Adam Hochschild via The Nation
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on March 11, 2025
Evolution in the Dock

How the Scopes trial informs today's culture wars.

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books
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on December 26, 2024
Mildred Rutherford’s War

The “historian general” of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the battle over the depiction of the South in history textbooks that continues today.

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books
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on November 16, 2023
The Senator Who Took On the CIA

Frank Church and the committee that investigated the US intelligence agencies.

by Adam Hochschild via The Nation
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on September 5, 2023
Pathologies of a President

A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?

by Adam Hochschild via New Statesman
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on June 19, 2023
History Bright and Dark

Americans have often been politically divided. But have the divisions over how we recount our history ever been so deep?

by Adam Hochschild via New York Review of Books
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on May 2, 2023
The Cult of J. Edgar Hoover

A zealot through and through, he ran the FBI like a religious sect.

by Adam Hochschild via The Nation
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on March 7, 2023
America’s Top Censor—So Far

Woodrow Wilson’s postmaster put papers out of business and jailed journalists. The tools he used still exist.

by Adam Hochschild via Mother Jones on October 13, 2022
The American Socialism That Might Have Been

Despite their minority status, the Socialists had been a significant force in American politics before patriotic war hysteria brought on an era of repression.

by Adam Hochschild via The Nation
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on October 12, 2022
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American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

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Eugene Debs mug shots at the US Penitentiary in Atlanta.

War Fever

The crusade against civil liberties during World War I.

by Eric Foner via The Nation on February 7, 2023

The Socialist Party leader Eugene Debs addressing a crowd, circa 1910.

How World War I Crushed the American Left

A new book documents a period of thriving radical groups and their devastating suppression.

by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic on October 18, 2022

Collage of significant political figures representative of the past 50 years.

Exploding Cars, Office Monkeys, Watergate: The Origins of Mother Jones

Fifty years of journalism by and for “the rest of us.”

by Monika Bauerlein via Mother Jones on June 25, 2026

Cartoon of police beating people with nightsticks.

The New War on Speech

In modern US history, there has never been an attack on free expression quite like Donald Trump’s.

by Aryeh Neier via New York Review of Books on March 10, 2026

Mahmoud Khalil

Deportation Was Always Political

From its beginnings, deportation has been a tool used to threaten, suppress, and break dissent. ICE’s targeting of political enemies is no exception.

by Levi Vonk via Jacobin on March 1, 2026

SECRET stamped multiples times over the United States emblem.

The Troubled History of the Espionage Act

The law, passed in a frenzy after the First World War, is a disaster. Why is it still on the books?

by Amy Davidson Sorkin via The New Yorker on December 11, 2023

Scaffolding around the statue of President Theodore Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History as it is prepared for removal on December 2, 2021 in New York City

A New York Museum's House of Bones

The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose.

by Erin L. Thompson via Hyperallergic on October 15, 2023

Big Bill Haywood, Adolph Lessing, and Carlo Tresca, Paterson, New Jersey, 1913.

The Wobblies and the Dream of One Big Union

A new history examines the lost promise and fierce persecution of the IWW.

by Michael Kazin via The Nation on May 15, 2023

George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams and the Origins of Anti-Imperialism

Initially supportive of Belgian King Leopold II’s claim to have created a “free state” of Congo, Williams changed his mind when he saw the horrors of empire.

by Mohammed Elnaiem via JSTOR Daily on June 10, 2021

Cover of "Empire of Necessity" featuring a painting of violence being wrought on enslaved men.

The Bleached Bones of the Dead

What the modern world owes slavery. (It’s more than back wages).

by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on February 23, 2014

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