October 20, 1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee Opens an Investigation of Communism in Hollywood October 20, 1947: The House Un-American Activities Committee Opens an Investigation of Communism in Hollywood
“The exposure of a few Communists in Hollywood seems hardly worth the price.”
Oct 20, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
October 14, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis Begins October 14, 1962: The Cuban Missile Crisis Begins
“Thermonuclear war is not, as the world has been saying, unthinkable; quite the contrary, it is perfectly thinkable. Let no one mistake the fact.”
Oct 14, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
October 9, 1967: Che Guevara Is Executed in Bolivia October 9, 1967: Che Guevara Is Executed in Bolivia
“His is a revolutionary ideology in which death and tragedy occupy, close in the foreground, an unwanted, redemptive place.”
Oct 9, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
In Cuba, Pope Francis and Fidel Castro Baptize a New Era In Cuba, Pope Francis and Fidel Castro Baptize a New Era
Pope Francis and Fidel Castro share a long, intertwined political history—one that also points forward to a global ideological realignment.
Sep 21, 2015 / Greg Grandin
What a Band of 20th-Century Alabama Communists Can Teach Black Lives Matter and the Offspring of Occupy What a Band of 20th-Century Alabama Communists Can Teach Black Lives Matter and the Offspring of Occupy
On the 25th anniversary of the groundbreaking history, Hammer and Hoe, author Robin D.G. Kelley discusses the lessons Alabama’s forgotten black communists can offer today’s activis...
Aug 31, 2015 / Sarah Jaffe
August 21, 1940: Leon Trotsky Dies August 21, 1940: Leon Trotsky Dies
“The blood feud between the two revolutionaries went on to the end.”
Aug 21, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past How Ukraine’s New Memory Commissar Is Controlling the Nation’s Past
Volodymyr Viatrovych was the driving force behind new laws that restrict free speech and regulate how history is written.
Aug 13, 2015 / Jared McBride
August 3, 1948: Whittaker Chambers Accuses Alger Hiss of Being a Communist August 3, 1948: Whittaker Chambers Accuses Alger Hiss of Being a Communist
“The air was heavy with the ominous and ultimate charges of modern history: treason, espionage, and insanity.”
Aug 3, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner
June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed
“Abroad this execution will be thrown in our faces for a long time to come.”
Jun 19, 2015 / 150th Anniversary / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
Will Ukraine’s New Anti-Communist Law Usher in a Free-Speech Dark Age? Will Ukraine’s New Anti-Communist Law Usher in a Free-Speech Dark Age?
The law, still to be signed by the president, is more about silencing the left than anything else.
Apr 13, 2015 / Alec Luhn