Christopher Phelps taught American history at Ohio State University, Mansfield, from 1999 to 2009. He is now associate professor of American studies at the University of Nottingham in England.
As GM shutters a plant, an Ohio city in decline struggles to imagine a future.
Bettina Aptheker's recent memoir has incited fierce debate over her father s legacy.
Oakland, Calif.
Can the new Students for a Democratic Society avoid the internal conflicts that plagued the original group?


