Abner R Small, a commissioned officer in the 16th Maine Volunteers, was captured by Confederate forces in August 1864 and spent several months as a…
American Civil War
Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse and the difficult future ahead for us
It’s coming, we don’t know when it will fully emerge, but it’s on the way. When this rampant societal violence, and especially these tragic mass…
I have struggled to find words to express what I thought and felt as I watched the videos ofAlton Sterling and Philando Castile being killed by…
Just what we needed: another foreign policy speech from Candidate Clinton. This one arrived last Thursday in San Diego—well-chosen ground, given the Navy’s immense base…
This paper, written under the title, “U.S. Settler-Colonialism and Genocide Policies,” was delivered at the Organization of American Historians 2015 Annual Meeting in St. Louis,…
Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I…
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that “Populist Tone Rankles America’s Executives.” Apparently the CEOs and board members of big American companies are “increasingly frustrated” by the…
Power Shift: The Radicalized Right and the Battle of ‘American Values’ Leid Stories discusses the rise of the radicalized right in America and the seismic…
When black progressives today think about the Civil War, they are often more struck by what didn’t happen than what did. Michelle Alexander’s much-lauded The…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Riverside Church speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year before his April,…
America is entering into a most dangerous time in its history as this society and its people react to and try to cope with the…