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Trucks and cars moving on the highway

Keep on Truckin’

The road to right-wing deregulation began on our nation's highways.
by Matthew D. Lassiter via Democracy Journal on December 10, 2008
William Jennings Bryan, c. 1910s.

All You Need Is Love

The complex history, career, and legacy of one of America's most popular speakers and reformers.
by Ronald Steel via New York Review of Books on June 22, 2006

American Green

How did the plain green lawn become the central landscaping feature in America, and what is the ecological cost?
by Ted Steinberg via Longreads on March 15, 2006
Cover of Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

Howard Zinn's History Lessons

"A People’s History" is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions.
by Michael Kazin via Dissent on April 3, 2004
The World Trade Center.

The World Trade Center: Before, During, and After

A biography of the towers that became "bane as well as boon to lower Manhattan."
by Michael Tomasky via New York Review of Books on March 28, 2002
Harper Lee

Harper Lee's Only Recorded Interview About 'To Kill A Mockingbird' [AUDIO]

In 1964, Harper Lee talked with WQXR host Roy Newquist for an interview in New York.
via WQXR on January 1, 1964

Strivings of the Negro People

Du Bois’ 1897 essay describes the “double consciousness” of African Americans who are “shut out from their world by a vast veil.”
by W.E.B. Du Bois via The Atlantic on August 1, 1897

Shawn Fain Is Channeling the Best of the UAW’s Past

The ongoing UAW strike is reminiscent of early UAW leader Walter Reuther — before the union and Reuther himself downsized their ambitions.
by Barry Eidlin via Jacobin on October 16, 1923

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