The following is an excerpt from Legacies of Dust: Land Use and Labor on the Colorado Plains by Douglas Sheflin (June 2019). The dust storm that gathered momentum on April 14, 1935, the day later named Black Sunday, was only the … Continue reading Excerpt: Legacies of Dust
Books The Zoo at Night Susan Gubernat Praise from Kenyon Review: “Rising out of experience—painful, beautiful, disruptive—The Zoo at Night offers an unflinching look at an imperfect world underlain with a conviction to hope.” Our Lady of the Artichokes Katherine … Continue reading News and Reviews
Books Vice Capades Mark Stein Review in Inside Higher Ed: “There is something amusing, but also intriguing, about seeing examples from history of people working themselves up into a righteous frenzy of alarm and condemnation about, say, juggling, which was illegal … Continue reading News and Reviews
An excerpt from Capitalist Family Values: Gender, Work, and Corporate Culture at Boeing by Polly Reed Myers (September 2015). The war was a turning point for the Boeing “family” in that it required the company to do more with less and to refashion … Continue reading Excerpt: Capitalist Family Values
A excerpt from The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History (Potomac Books, 2015) by Jack Ross. 1 The Roots of American Socialism (1876-1892) It was a curious twist of fate that the founding of the first nationally organized party of … Continue reading Excerpt: The Socialist Party of America
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