
Another Great Yesterday
Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff—A Western Tale of America in Crisis
by Anthony McCann
No Man’s Land
a PBS Independent Lens documentary film directed by David Byars
December 19, 2019 issue
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Adam Hochschild’s books include King Leopold’s Ghost, To End All Wars, and Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays, which was published last fall. He teaches at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. (December 2019)
Another Great Yesterday
Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff—A Western Tale of America in Crisis
by Anthony McCann
No Man’s Land
a PBS Independent Lens documentary film directed by David Byars
December 19, 2019 issue
Family Values
Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
by Eli Saslow
September 26, 2019 issue
American Devilry
Beautiful Country Burn Again: Democracy, Rebellion, and Revolution
by Ben Fountain
Behold, America: The Entangled History of “America First” and “The American Dream”
by Sarah Churchwell
Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law
by James Q. Whitman
October 25, 2018 issue
Bang for the Buck
The American love affair with guns
Armed in America: A History of Gun Rights from Colonial Militias to Concealed Carry
by Patrick J. Charles
Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment
by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West
by James Pogue
April 5, 2018 issue
Ku Klux Klambakes
Two new books give us a fresh look at the Klan in the 1920s.
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
by Linda Gordon
Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s
by Felix Harcourt
December 7, 2017 issue
When Dissent Became Treason
A period of unparalleled censorship, mass imprisonment, and anti-immigrant terror
America and the Great War: A Library of Congress Illustrated History
by Margaret E. Wagner, with an introduction by David M. Kennedy
The Great War
a three-part television series produced by Stephen Ives and Amanda Pollak for PBS’s American Experience
War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918
by Michael Kazin
Spider Web: The Birth of American Anticommunism
by Nick Fischer
September 28, 2017 issue
Our Awful Prisons: How They Can Be Changed
Today we have 710 people per 100,000 in prison in the US, compared to fifty-eight in Finland.
Mr. Smith Goes to Prison: What My Year Behind Bars Taught Me About America’s Prison Crisis
by Jeff Smith
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People’s Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time
by James Kilgore
The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
by Naomi Murakawa
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
by Elizabeth Hinton
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
by Marie Gottschalk
May 26, 2016 issue
Berkeley: What We Didn’t Know
Seth Rosenfeld’s ‘Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power’
Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power
by Seth Rosenfeld
May 23, 2013 issue
In the Heart of Darkness
Memory of Congo: The Colonial Era
an exhibition at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, February 4–October 9, 2005.
La mémoire du Congo: Le temps colonial
catalog of the exhibition, in French or Dutch, edited by Jean-Luc Vellut et al
October 6, 2005 issue
Magic Journalism
Imperium
by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska
November 3, 1994 issue
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