Category Archives: radical studies

October 3, 2012

The Haymarket Conspiracy author interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition

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Timothy Messer-Kruse, author of the new University of Illinois Press book The Haymarket Conspiracy: Transatlantic Anarchist Networks, was interviewed on NPR’s Morning Edition about his struggle to change the Wikipedia entry for the Haymarket Affair to reflect new research about the historic … Continue reading →

April 26, 2011

The Weekly Standard reviews “Red Conspirator”

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Thomas Sakmyster’s new book, Red Conspirator: J. Peters and the American Communist Underground, received an excellent review (subscription required) from Harvey Klehr in the April 25-May 2, 2011, issue of The Weekly Standard. “Based on careful and extensive digging in … Continue reading →

May 10, 2010

Revisiting the History of Southern Radicalism by James J. Lorence

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A persistent myth concerning southern workers was the assertion that even in the hardest of times, they were impervious to the force of radicalism that affected urban labor in the Depression era and beyond.  Current scholarship, however, has begun to … Continue reading →