James Morone, Still Crazy After All These Years (“Fantasyland”) “As Andersen shows, fantastical thinking has always played an outsize role in American culture. But something seems different today. Running beneath the parade of con artists and manias that Andersen deftly catalogs glints something more dangerous than illusions: a bitter contest over national identity that political institutions may no longer be able to contain.” read
John Ikenberry, How Democracies Die “Decades of extreme polarization have taken their toll on the respect for constitutional checks and balances and on traditional American political norms, such as mutual toleration, acceptance of the legitimacy of rivals, and self-restraint in the use of institutional prerogatives. “ read
Adam Hochschild, Stranger in Strange Lands “In the late nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth, nothing reshaped the world more than European imperialism. It redrew the map, enriched Europe, and left millions of Africans and Asians dead…..In the best of his work, however, Conrad rose above the quirks and torments of his own life. He etched a deeper picture of the connections between the world’s North and South and portrayed the corrosive effect of the lust for riches more powerfully than any other writer of his day—and perhaps of our day as well” read
What Was the Most Influential Act of Protest in History? read
Harvard Hires First Professor of Native American History read
Matt Garcia, Successes and Failures of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union read
Sam Haselby, American secular read
Christine Mathias,, The First Abolitionists:rev:. The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
by Manisha Sinha read
Robert Greene, Remember the Orangeburg Massacre read
Alex Dean, The wrongness of “the right side of history” “Where it does still have some potency is in demonstrating the exact opposite of what it proclaims. Far from being settled or predictable, the volleys and ricochets of this term show that history is a perpetual shifting battlefield.” read
Noam Chomsky: We’re on the Brink of Global Catastrophe read
Richard A. Koenigberg, Political Violence as Collective Psychopathology (Director of the Library of Social Science.) read
Ian Johnson, Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao? read
Edward B Westermann, Drunk on genocide: how the Nazis celebrated murdering Jews read
Eric Ortiz, John Pilger: How the People of South Africa Were Misled and Can Rise Again watch
Santiago Anria, The Key to Evo Morales’ Political Longevity read
Julie Zauzmer, The complicated history of ‘In God We Trust’ and other examples Trump gives of American religion read
William C. Kashatus, This Was a Real “Fake News” Story – And It Landed Us in a War read
Chris Hedges, Guns and Liberty read
Popular, Did Human Sacrifice Help People Form Complex Societies? read
Lise Morjé Howard, Why Civil Wars Are Lasting Longer read
Philip Nobile, The Strange Evolution of Henry Louis Gates’s Estimate of Alex Haley and “Roots” “Gates is to Haley what Haley is to the imaginary Kunta Kinte, that is, an unreliable reporter of his peoples’ history. This may sound harsh.”read
Jim Macgregor and Gerry Docherty, Fake History. How The Money Power Controls Our Future By Controlling Our Past. Long, important (Lengty, controversial, important) read
