May 1945, just six months after my husband Hal was born, World War II in Europe ended. However, […]

We here at Tropics of Meta–and our sister podcast Doomed to Repeat–have been thinking about Russia for a […]

University of Alabama historian Kari Frederickson’s new book offers a compelling and insightful account of the Savannah River Project, […]

Why is the sixty-five year-old spy case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg back in the news? Anderson Cooper […]

On October 3, 1965, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed what became, in retrospect, one of the most influential […]

On September 1, 1964, Masanori Murakami threw a scoreless eighth inning for the San Francisco Giants. Amid a […]

[Editor’s Note: Fifteen years ago, a a group of Jewish and Latino activists began efforts to renovate and […]

Even with the clearest of minds, personal and historical memory ebb and flow. Recollections of our own past […]