Thomas J. Sugrue

Thomas J. Sugrue, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis and, most recently, Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.

Currently

  • The Hundred Days War

    April 8, 2009

    FDR's first hundred days were unprecedented in their ambition and scope--and anything but politically coherent.

2008

  • Letters

    September 17, 2008 Subscribe

  • Orthogonian Visions

    August 13, 2008

    Historian Rick Perlstein explores the resentment and polarization sparked by the Nixon era's cultural and political strife.

  • Hearts and Minds

    April 24, 2008

    Is there more to racism in America than intolerance and immorality? Four books shed light.

2007

  • Letters

    November 20, 2007 Subscribe

  • Shanker Blows Up the World

    October 25, 2007

    The life and legacy of a fiery New York teachers' advocate gets caught in the crossfire of a changing liberal landscape.

2006

  • Letters

    September 13, 2006 Subscribe

  • The Geography of Fear

    February 9, 2006 Subscribe

    Three new books explore how an absence of regulation and active policies of racial exclusion have shaped America's arid suburbs.

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Bill Moyers Tells a Tale of Two Quagmires: Vietnam & Afghanistan | "Once again, the loudest case for enlarging the war is being made by those who will not have to fight it..."
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» The Notion

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Toward Copenhagen | A guide to joining the movement against climate change.
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