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  • By Bus Through the Middle West

    Oswald Garrison Villard : U.S. Economy

    A tour of the heartland in the depths of the Great Depression.

  • Hamilton Explains

    The Editors

    How Alexander Hamilton "fell into as difficult a position as a public man has ever known, and extricated himself by means which show how much the conventional standards of morals have changed in America since his time."

  • Squire Willie

    Robert Sherrill : Journalists & Journalism

    Surveying the life and accomplishments of the "late" William F. Buckley Jr.

  • The Faith of Roosevelt

    The Editors : Economic Policy

    "To achieve 'social values more noble than mere monetary profit,' to 'keep the money changers permanently out of the temple of our civilization'...would be to transform America."

  • Issues and Men--and a Woman: Frances Perkins

    Oswald Garrison Villard : Feminism & Women

    "Here is a lost cause no longer lost, but come to triumphant success, and if the pioneers of that cause are looking down upon this scene, there will be rejoicing in heaven on the fourth day of March."

  • The Two Nuernbergs

    Peter de Mendelssohn : History

    Awaiting trial for the Nazi atrocities were "twenty shabby men... a ragged, spiritless, motley crew of second-rate characters": Ribbentrop, Hiss, Göring...

  • Lenin, Trotzky and Gorky

    Bertrand Russell : Russia

    "I went to Russia believing myself a communist, but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts...of every creed so firmly held that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery."

  • An Unconventional Convention

    Oswald Garrison Villard : Political Parties

    On Saturday, June 27, 1924, "men and women suddenly rose up after days of utterly degraded and demoralizing vaudeville performances to declaim with passion about two big subjects."

  • The Long War of Wayne Felde

    Doug Magee : Vietnam War

    How a Vietnam vet wound up on Death Row.

  • Wall Street's Crisis

    The Editors : U.S. Economy

    It was a record day in the history of the Stock Exchange and, coming as a climax to more than three weeks of declining prices, it was most disastrous in hammering down security values.

  • 'The Mississippi Challenge'

    George Slaff : Racism & Discrimination

    Black people in the state were "regularly and systematically" denied the vote by "intimidation, harassment, economic reprisal, property damage, terrorization, violence and illegal and unconstitutional registration procedures."

  • Jinnah's New Republic

    Andrew Roth : Pakistan

    Seldom has a state been created under such contradictory pressures or with such a load of full-grown problems.

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