The Legend of John Reed The Legend of John Reed
The author of Ten Days That Shook the World was one of the greatest journalists of his day or any day.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / Max Lerner
The Lord and John Foster Dulles The Lord and John Foster Dulles
The secretary of state's political views are rooted in his religion. Tell that to the leaders of his faith.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / Charles F. Edmundson
The Hubris of a President The Hubris of a President
The man who reported on the Third Reich for CBS finds some disturbing parallels between the Nixon administration and the Nazi government.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / William L. Shirer
Morse and the Telegraph Morse and the Telegraph
The great portrait painter and inventor who will forever be memorialized in a series of dots and dashes.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
A. Philip Randolph: Brotherhood Except for Negroes A. Philip Randolph: Brotherhood Except for Negroes
The head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters takes on FDR.
Jul 8, 2009 / Feature / Jonathan Daniels
Oswald Villard, the NAACP and The Nation Oswald Villard, the NAACP and The Nation
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.
Jul 2, 2009 / Feature / Flint Kellogg
Susan B. Anthony: The Good Fanatic Susan B. Anthony: The Good Fanatic
She was a fanatic but "a good fanatic" in the fight for women's freedom.
Jul 2, 2009 / Feature / Freda Kirchwey
Off Dead Center: William Appleman Williams Off Dead Center: William Appleman Williams
William Appleman Williams and the tragedy of American diplomacy.
Jul 1, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin
The Death of Cardozo The Death of Cardozo
He may have been one of the 'nine old men' of the Supreme Court, but he was a great old man.
Jun 25, 2009 / Feature / Oswald Garrison Villard
Winston Churchill in War and Peace Winston Churchill in War and Peace
Harold Laski profiles the British leader whose iron will galvanized Britain and saved Europe from Nazism.
Jun 25, 2009 / Feature / Harold J. Laski