Nation History

Remembering Studs Remembering Studs

Studs Terkel's longtime publisher looks back on the historian's remarkable career.

Nov 13, 2008 / Books & the Arts / André Schiffrin

Studs Studs

Remembering our national griot, the bearer of stories of people, ordinary and extraordinary.

Nov 6, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Victor Navasky

Studs Terkel: The Power of His Prose Studs Terkel: The Power of His Prose

He was our Boswell, our Whitman, our Sandburg. He could get people to open up and share their innermost thoughts and dreams.

Nov 1, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Dennis Kucinich

Paul Newman Paul Newman

He was funny, he was thoughtful, he was committed and, in the end, he was a friend, period.

Oct 1, 2008 / Editorial / Victor Navasky

Obama and King Obama and King

As Obama accepts his party's presidential nomination on the forty-fifth anniversary of King's most famous speech, a historian looks beyond the obvious analogies.

Aug 18, 2008 / Feature / Adele Oltman

A Charismatic Candidate A Charismatic Candidate

Flawed and flamboyant, the charismatic Jesse Jackson wasn't the perfect candidate, but his idealism led The Nation to endorse his bid for the White House.

Jul 31, 2008 / Editorial / The Editors

The Hilton Hotel Incident The Hilton Hotel Incident

While the whole world was watching, this is what Chicago's finest did.

Jul 31, 2008 / Feature / The Nation

The Bitter Legacy of LBJ The Bitter Legacy of LBJ

It was a rigged convention, and the Chicago police were spoiling for a fight.

Jul 31, 2008 / Feature / Carey McWilliams

The Democratic Trough at Chicago The Democratic Trough at Chicago

As they nominated FDR, Democratic conventioneers were more interested in grandstanding against prohibition than facing the nation's economic crisis.

Jul 31, 2008 / Feature / Oswald Garrison Villard

Alice Paul Pulls the Strings 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.

Jul 31, 2008 / Feature / Freda Kirchwey

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