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Will Lee as Mr. Hooper

Spotlighting Communism & Hollywood in the Papers of Sesame Street’s Mr. Hooper

The actor who played the loveable grocer found his way to Sesame Street after being blacklisted during the Red Scare.

via American Heritage Center Blog on April 18, 2018

Salem witch trials

An Embarrassment of Witches

What's the real history behind Trump's 'witch hunt' tweets?

by Mary Beth Norton via Perspectives on History on April 10, 2018

Hollywood Has Always Been Political. And it Hasn’t Always Been Liberal.

Conservatives have used celebrity glitz effectively, too.

by Kathryn Cramer Brownell via Washington Post on March 2, 2018

A Homecoming for Murray Kempton

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.

by Andrew Holter via Lapham’s Quarterly on December 13, 2017

Your Child Care Conundrum Is an Anti-Communist Plot

Red-baiters deserve at least part of the blame for the shortage of affordable, high-quality pre-K.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on June 14, 2017

Dark Satirical Maps from a Depression-Era Anti-Fascist Magazine

The magazine's founders swore it was anti-communist, but that wasn't enough to convince skittish advertisers to stick with it.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 17, 2017

Celebrating the Life and Activism of Jackie Robinson

Those who honor Jackie Robinson must remember his importance outside the baseball diamond.

by Matthew Teutsch via Black Perspectives on May 9, 2017

W.E.B. Du Bois

When W. E. B. Du Bois was Un-American

W. E. B. Du Bois may be our keenest critic of Trumpism today.

by Andrew Lanham via Boston Review on January 13, 2017

Woody Guthrie.

This Land Is Our Land

The Popular Front and American culture.

by Michael Kazin via Humanities on May 1, 2011

"Sunrise at Northport Harbor" painting by Arthur Dove.

Unpopular Front

American art and the Cold War.

by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on October 9, 2005

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