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HistoryOctober 20, 2009
Why Did the Arabs Run?
The Nation's editor Freda Kirchwey travels to Israel and sends back an eyewitness report of the young country's struggles to survive.
Freda Kirchwey
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HistoryJuly 2, 2009
Susan B. Anthony: The Good Fanatic
She was a fanatic but "a good fanatic" in the fight for women's freedom.
Freda Kirchwey
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HistoryMay 13, 2009
The Truman Doctrine and Manifest Destiny
President Truman extends the Monroe Doctrine to cover the entire globe.
Freda Kirchwey
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HistoryJuly 31, 2008
Alice Paul Pulls the Strings
At the National Women's Party convention, party leaders spurned black women who sought to be included in the suffragist agenda.
Freda Kirchwey
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Nation HistorySeptember 4, 2003
When H.G. Wells Split the Atom
This essay, from the August 18, 1945, issue of The Nation, is a special selection from The Nation Digital Archive. If you want to read everything The Nation has ever published on nuclear politics and the global disarmament movement, click here for information on how to acquire individual access to the Archive--an electronic database of every Nation article since 1865.
Freda Kirchwey
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HistoryAugust 23, 2001
Atom Bomb: One World or None
The creation of the atom bomb is the greatest revolution ever accomplished in science--and unquestionably the most frightening.
Freda Kirchwey