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02
Mar

Speaking of Jews

Lila Corwin Berman is Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies and Mal and Lea Bank Early Career Professor in Jewish Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is also the author of …

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23
Feb

Ice Cream During the Depression

Jeri Quinzio is the author of “Ice Cream: The Ultimate Cold Comfort” and a contributor to the ice cream entry in “The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America”. She has …

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13
Jan

Women of the Klan

Kathleen M. Blee is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Blee’s book, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920’s, was first published with critical acclaim in …

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06
Jan

The Magna Carta Manifesto is “MVP”

The Nation‘s blog The Beat listed Peter Linebaugh’s The Magna Carta Manifesto as one of it’s 2008 Most Valuable Progressives (MVPs), calling it “the year’s most lyrical and necessary book on liberty”. …

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02
Oct

The Power of the Latino Vote

Randy Shaw is the Director of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Housing Clinic, and is Editor of the online daily newspaper, BeyondChron.org. His previous books are The Activist’s Handbook and Reclaiming America, both from …

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