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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg Is Still Thinking About the Papers He Didn’t Get to Leak

The man who leaked the Pentagon Papers is back with a new book, The Doomsday Machine.

by Andrew Rice via Intelligencer on November 28, 2017

The 1960s Photographer Who Documented the Peace Sign as a Political Symbol

Jim Marshall photographed the spread of the peace sign between 1961 and 1968, with his images now published for the first time by Reel Art Press.

by Allison C. Meier via Hyperallergic on October 20, 2017

Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."

by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017

The filmmakers discuss the Vietnam miniseries.

Burns and Novick, Masters of False Balancing

In promoting healing instead of a search for truth, “The Vietnam War” offers misleading comforts.

by Jerry Lembcke via Public Books on September 15, 2017

People in a large boat in an amusement park

How a Group of '70s Radicals Tried (and Failed) to Invade Disneyland

The Yippies' takeover did not quite go to plan.

by Kristin Hunt via Atlas Obscura on July 19, 2017

Still Chasing the Wrong Rainbows

What historian William Appleman Williams taught us about foreign policy and the good society.

by Andrew J. Bacevich via The American Conservative on May 4, 2017

The Moment That Political Debates on TV Turned to Spectacle

A new documentary explores the infamous 1968 dispute between William Buckley and Gore Vidal.

by Nadine Ajaka via The Atlantic on September 27, 2016

Donald Trump’s Not-so-Silent Majority

Unlike Nixon's famous "silent majority," Trump's backers are loud - and growing in volume

by Jonathan Zimmerman via Salon on May 29, 2016

Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech.

The Crisis in America’s Cities

Martin Luther King Jr. on what sparked the violent urban riots of the “long hot summer” of 1967.

by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Atlantic on August 15, 1967

Flowers and a fan drawing at a memorial for Ozzy Osbourne.

Ozzy Osbourne Taught Kids To Rebel By Subverting Christianity

In Ozzy Osbourne's hands, Satan gave a middle finger to hypocrisy and fearmongering.

by Matthew Avery Sutton via USA Today on July 24, 2025

Columbia University building shrouded in darkness.

In the Hallowed Place Where There’s Only Darkness

Columbia University as security state.

by Ellen Schrecker, Nina Berman via VQR on July 10, 2025

Martin Luther King Jr stands behind a podium.

5 Lessons From the Real Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and believed.

by Jeanne Theoharis via The Nation on June 19, 2025

Painting of the Battle of San Pasquale in the U.S.-Mexico War.

Borders May Change, But People Remain

The legacies of conflict—and their increasingly accessible images in a global age—frame the shared bonds of trauma in keeping their memories alive.

by Emiliano Aguilar via Public Books on April 24, 2025

Ronald Reagan standing before a podium and a row of American flags.

The Rise of Ronald Reagan, a Product of California

On the early career of the actor-cum-politician who changed America.

by Michael Hiltzik via Literary Hub on February 26, 2025

Brown Berets protesting white supremacy in San Diego in 2017.

The CIA Illegally Spied on Puerto Rican and Mexican American Activists for Decades

And is probably still at it. As newly released classified documents confirm activists’ long-held suspicions, the disclosures should also alert us to current dangers.

by Roberto Lovato via The Nation on January 16, 2025

Noam Chomsky illustration by Joe Ciardiello.

The Worlds of Noam Chomsky

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.

by Daniel Bessner via The Nation on January 13, 2025

President Jimmy Carter seated at desk in Oval Office, hands steepled.

Jimmy Carter Held the Door Open for Neoliberalism

His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.

by Sean T. Byrnes via Jacobin on December 29, 2024

A still of Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan overlaid on the seal of the United States.

The Thin Line Between Biopic and Propaganda

The success of “Reagan” reflects the market demands of a more fragmented moviegoing public—and reality.

by Zach Schonfeld via The Atlantic on November 18, 2024

"Stayed on Freedom" book cover

A History of Black Power We Need and Deserve

A history that is as tactical as it is analytical, as global as it is local, and as based in love as it is in politics.

by Say Burgin via Monthly Review on November 1, 2024

Richard Nixon gestures toward George Meany during a speech at the 1971 AFL-CIO convention.

How the “AFL-CIA” Undermined Labor Movements Abroad

During the Cold War, the AFL-CIO actively participated in efforts to suppress left-wing labor movements abroad.

by Jeff Schuhrke, Cal Turner, Sara Van Horn via Jacobin on September 2, 2024

Still from the film 'Red Dawn" showing three men holding rifles and binoculars.

Why 1984's 'Red Dawn' Still Matters

By framing the U.S. as a victim, 'Red Dawn' obscured U.S. aggression in Latin America and elsewhere.

by Michelle D. Paranzino via Made By History on August 9, 2024

People holding antiwar signs at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

A Brief History of the Democratic Party

The Democratic Party, and the US political system as a whole, is a very strange beast.

by Doug Henwood, Adam Hilton via Jacobin on August 6, 2024

Lieutenant William Calley leaving court with his attorney George Latimer.

Tracking Down Lieutenant Calley

How I learned the story of the My Lai Massacre.

by Seymour M. Hersh via seymourhersh.substack on August 1, 2024

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris standing behind President Joe Biden, who is giving a speech at podium.

How Democrats Gave Away Their Ability to Pick a New Nominee

Until the late 1960s, the Democratic Party could have simply anointed a replacement for President Biden. Now it's not so easy.

by Lawrence R. Jacobs via Made By History on July 22, 2024

A yuppie surrounded by money and luxury items.

When Yuppies Ruled

Defining a social type is a way of defining an era. What can the time of the young urban professional tell us about our own?

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on July 22, 2024

The side of Donald Trump's face, focused on his bandaged ear from his attempted assassination.

Historians See Echoes of 1968 in Trump Assassination Attempt

But they also find key differences.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on July 17, 2024

Barry Goldwater giving a speech at the Republican National Convention.

The Republican National Convention That Shocked the Country

The pulsating anger in San Francisco 60 years ago became the party's animating spirit.

by Charles J. Holden via Made By History on July 17, 2024

SDS protestors parody the Columbia administration's suspension of students in 1968.

Kids These Days

Compared to their 1960s forerunners, today’s young radicals seem far less interested in moving towards responsible adulthood.

by D. G. Hart via Law & Liberty on June 5, 2024

Campus police struggle with anti-war demonstrators in Berkeley, California 1967.

The Protests That Anticipated the Gaza Solidarity Encampments

With the Dow sit-ins of the 1960s, students drew attention to links between the campus, war, and imperialism.

by Adam Tomasi via Made By History on May 10, 2024

Pro-Israel counterprotesters hold Israeli flags on the edges of a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University in Boston, April 26, 2024.

The New Anti-Antisemitism

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on May 8, 2024

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