history
Trump targets Cuba: Bay of Pigs, round two?
May 28, 2026History shows that the Trump administration is continuing the U.S. legacy of harassing and terrorizing the Cuban people.
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Democratic lawmakers move against GOP censorship of history
May 22, 2026They accuse Republicans of trying to erase historical truths in the nation’s schools.
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Mass rally in Montgomery battles racist gerrymandering
May 18, 2026Rally follows commemorative march across Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge
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Ernest Poole’s ‘The Harbor’: A working-class classic that still matters
May 14, 2026"The Harbor" does for the ship and dock workers of New York what Upton Sinclair’s "The Jungle" did for the immigrants working in the meatpacking industry in Chicago.
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The battle for Berlin’s memory
May 12, 2026Government officials are eagerly trying to erase or “contextualize” the physical reminders of the Soviet Union’s defeat of Hitler and fascism.
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