Francis E. Townsend

Linda Gordon argues that social movements are vital partnerships that, by challenging the status quo, are indispensable to the health of the nation.

On the movement that fought for old-age pensions during the Great Depression.

Then as now, not many people were willing to raise their own voices to defend the speech of a vulgarian spewing hate over a mass medium.

How Upton Sinclair’s 1934 run for governor of California inspired a cult.