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Domestic Left #114: “Russia abroad, labor at home”
Labor, technology, and the Cold War
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Domestic Left #104: The end of history?
The disorganization of American historians
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Domestic Left #97: On not doing things
When I was in college, I took exactly one political science class, and only under some duress.
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Domestic Left #82: The past is never dead
What we learn from history
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Domestic Left #72: The foreign and domestic policy of Walter Reuther
Prospectus for a tragedy in five acts
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Domestic Left #49: A broken heart’s your ticket
I’ve been listening recently to two new podcasts about the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), the federation of industrial unions that was…
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Domestic Left #48: Valley and ridge, history and memory
Driving the Lincoln Highway (more or less) across Pennsylvania
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Domestic Left #45: Keep the red flag flying
In February of 1996 I traveled from Iowa City to Chicago along with maybe half a dozen other graduate workers from the University of Iowa.
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Domestic Left #41: Take the hands off the clock
we’re going to be here awhile
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Domestic Left #39: Out of this earth
One of the things I have never loved about living in Pennsylvania is the land. Not the way I loved the land in Kansas, Iowa, Vermont. I’ve never quite…
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Domestic Left #38: It’s doom alone that counts
Two books about harrowing histories
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Domestic Left #23: Low ebb, high tide
Maybe I would have enjoyed Los Angeles more if the Joan Didion exhibit at the Hammer Museum had opened a week earlier.
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