Wishbone of The Good Lord Bird: Historical Fiction and Poetic Truth
Showtime’s The Good Lord Bird uses the events around John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to weave a fictional tale incorporating some
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The Contagion and a Cure
Mark Lause looks at the 1793 yellow fever pandemic in Philadelphia from a working class history perspective, and finds it informs us today.
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Nativism Needs Fake History
Stephen Miller is the latest clone of Ann Coulter offered the public by the administration of President Donald J. Trump. Mark Lausewww.artsci.uc.edu/collegedepts/history/fac_staff/profile_details.aspx?ePID=MjY4Mjk%3D
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Martin J. Bennet, “California’s $15 Minimum Wage Earthquake!” BeyondChron (August 16, 2016)
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed legislation boosting California’s minimum wage from $10 to $15 an hour — a 50 percent increase that made
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Portrait of a “Marriage”: Radicals & the Democratic Party
Prof. James N. Gregory has performed a real service with his “Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders” (re-posted
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The Real Rebels: A Review of Free State of Jones with Reflections on Lost Causes
Responses to the Free State of Jones by Gary Ross, and starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Mahershala Ali demonstrate that such denials
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Comrades & Cowboys
In 1886, several prominent European socialists came through Cincinnati in search of insights into America. Their local comrades–“delightful German-American friends” took them to
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A Memorial Day Exercise by Mark Lause
A few years back, I got to visit the grave of an uncle buried overseas. He had been happily married to a wonderful
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John Montgomery Ward, a New York Giant: A Labor History
I doubt many my age can greet the end of school or the warm weather without thinking about baseball. When I was young,
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Tony Benn’s quotes from the Guardian worth reflection
On March 14, Tony Benn, who had spent the better part of half a century in the British Parliament died. About twenty years