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Marx: The Fourth Boom
Were you to vanish Marx from every library, you’d destroy the central interlocutor around which most of capitalism is built.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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May 27, 2025
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German Radicals vs. the Slave Power
In "Memoirs of a Nobody," Henry Boernstein chronicles the militant immigrant organizing that helped keep St. Louis out of the hands of the Confederacy.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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HNN
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May 21, 2025
Basic Stuff About Reality
On David Roediger’s “An Ordinary White: My Antiracist Education.”
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Los Angeles Review of Books
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March 28, 2025
There’s a Hidden History of US Support for Irish Republicans
The solidarity group Noraid raised millions of dollars to support the Irish republican movement during the Troubles.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Jacobin
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March 16, 2025
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Knight Club
Were the Knights of the Golden Circle responsible for Lincoln’s assassination? No one knows, but far-right secret societies always draw power from speculation.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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HNN
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January 14, 2025
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A Nice, Provocative Silence
The author of "Cahokia Jazz" reflects on the similarities between historical fiction and science fiction, and the imaginative space opened by archival silences.
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Francis Spufford
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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HNN
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August 13, 2024
How the Term “Hoosier” Became a Weapon in the Class War
In Indiana, “hoosier” is a badge of honor. In St Louis, it’s the nastiest insult around. The difference reveals the prejudice that breaks worker solidarity.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Jacobin
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May 7, 2024
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Walt Disney Presents Manifest Destiny
On the St. Louis theme park that never made it past the drawing board.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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HNN
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April 30, 2024
Jack Conroy and the Lost Era of Proletarian Literature
In the midst of the Depression, Conroy helped encourage a new generation of working-class writers.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
via
The Nation
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April 30, 2024
Ivory Perry, the Forgotten Civil Rights Hell-Raiser
Activists are often held up as exemplars of personal morality — but in every social struggle, ordinary people with complex lives rise up as leaders.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Jacobin
on
January 15, 2024
Bad Shot, Mary
The mistress of JFK, there was a lot more than wealth, whiteness, and femininity to make Mary Pinchot Meyer a target of murder.
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Devin Thomas O’Shea
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Apocalypse Confidential
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November 22, 2023
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