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Featured Excerpt: President Carter
by Stuart E. Eizenstat Grounding the B-1 Bomber Exclusive picture of President Jimmy Carter in Stuart E. Eizenstat’s biography, President Carter. Far more complex, both...
Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday
by Tom Clavin Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure de Thulstrup. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Should anyone consider “civil war” over the outcome, one...
Remembering America’s Child Labor Crisis and the Women Reformers Who Opposed It
In the last couple of years, Americans have rediscovered child labor. The Nation reported that âChild Labor is BackâAnd Itâs as Chilling as Everâ and the New York Times...
The Finest Rough-and-Tumble Fighter
by Jack Kelly Florence Kelley’s father, William, taught his daughter to read in 1866 using books that chronicled child labor. When she was seven, he had her studying “a terrible...
Contrasts in A Place to Hide
By Ronald H. Balson The centre of Rotterdam destroyed after being bombed by the Luftwaffe A Place to Hide is my ninth novel and the seventh set during World War II. As it...
The Notorious Kid Curry
by Tom Clavin Kid Curry, born as Harvey Logan. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. It might be hard for some of you to believe that the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,...
Fifty Years of Combahee River Collective
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Celebrating Combahee at Fifty: Black Feminism, Socialism, Race, and Sexuality. For our submission guidelines, click here....