LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE: Indian Revolutionaries in America and the Fight to Overthrow the British Raj, by Scott Miller In the years before World War I, a wave of Indian immigrants arrived in the United S...
10.28.2025 Nytimes.com
Civil Rights Congress, 'America's Thought Police': Record of the Un-American Activities Committee, 1947. The New York Historical 's exhibition, 'Blacklisted: An American Story, ' extended through Nove...
10.30.2025 Dailykos.com and 2 sites
Robert Hough’s most recent novel is Anarchists in Love . One thing I’ve found about being a novelist is that the profession, while gluing you to a chair for the majority of your life, can also, on occ...
11.01.2025 Theglobeandmail.com
L ike his first novel, Mother Ocean Father Nation , Nishant Batsha’s second, A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart , also leverages the past as a site of “radical otherness” to complicate our understanding...
10.29.2025 Publicbooks.org
This summer I spent some time doing research for a history of Woodside, Queens that was just published in Volume 38 of New York Irish History, the annual journal of the New York Irish History Roundtable. Parts of the article focused in particular on the section of Woodside that borders Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Maspeth. This section was once its own separate locale called Winfield, a place name that lives on in the appellation of St. Mary’s of Winfield parish. During my research I was amazed...
10.30.2025 Irishecho.com
A New Film about Ida Craddock: An Interview with the Director A new docu-drama about reproductive freedom and women’s rights, Sex Radical chronicles the life of Ida Craddock (1857-1902), a feminist, s...
10.30.2025 Nursingclio.org
“ Ragtime ” is a spectacular — and incredibly timely — musical story of three families going after the American dream at the turn of the 20th century, and what that dream looks like for each family. I...
10.30.2025 Amsterdamnews.com
Emma Goldman Had she been living today, the legendary anarchist and feminist, Emma Goldman, who died eighty-five years ago, would in all likelihood have been dismissed by many, if not all, as a crackp...
10.29.2025 Countercurrents.org