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June 28, 2015
June 28, 1914: Gavrilo Princip Assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, Sparking World War I
“Governments cannot yield to terrorism.”
Richard Kreitner
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May 7, 2015
May 7, 1915: The Lusitania Sinks, Killing Over 1,000 Civilians
“The torpedo that sank the Lusitania also sank Germany in the opinion of mankind.”
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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March 23, 2015
When the World Became a Huge Penitentiary
An eloquent portrait of underground life among the undocumented and the damned of the earth.
Emma Goldman and Vivian Gornick
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March 23, 2015
1915–1965
From World War I to Vietnam, from the red scare to McCarthyism, The Nation stood firm for civil liberties and civil rights, even when that meant being banned—or standing alone.
D.D. Guttenplan
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January 26, 2015
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January 18, 2015
January 18, 1919: The Peace Conference Convenes at Paris
The Nation’s editor reports from the conference, where he laments the absence of women, workers and communists.
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
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August 5, 2014
Great War: The View From America at the Start of World War I
The Nation recognized that US isolation would be tested as never before, but didn’t even consider intervention as a possibility.
Richard Kreitner and Back Issues
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November 2, 2000
Anthropologists as Spies
Collaboration occurred in the past, and there’s no professional bar to it today.
David Price
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March 8, 1919
A Spartacan Manifesto
Shortly after the murders of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, The Nation published the manifesto of the German Spartacists, a group the pair co-founded to incite a Marxist revolution.
Clara Zetkin, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht and Franz Mehring