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In 1909, when the founders of the NAACP needed help organizing their new civil rights group, they reached out to Oswald Garrison Villard, The Nation's future editor and owner.
She was a fanatic but "a good fanatic" in the fight for women's freedom.
Should America join the League of Nations? The Harvard professor says the slogan "Join the League" offers too simple a solution for a complex question.
A conversation with the authors of On Kindness.
He may have been one of the 'nine old men' of the Supreme Court, but he was a great old man.
Harold Laski profiles the British leader whose iron will galvanized Britain and saved Europe from Nazism.
The founder of Hull House and former beacon for progressivism struggles to define herself in contemporary America.
James T. Farrell watches as the Brown Bomber becomes the Brown Bombed at the hands of Max Schmeling.
The pioneering psychoanalyst suffered so greatly in his last years that his death comes as a great relief to his friends


