We begin our annual Dog Days Classics series this year with a reflection on the work of Karen […]
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“It was profoundly true that movements of the spirit came first, and that events of history were consequences […]
July, 1956. It had been over a decade since the Carnegie Foundation solicited Gunnar Myrdal’s opinion on American […]
“Men in confusion clutched what they knew.” This is how Robert Wiebe describes the actions of America’s leaders […]
Thirty years after its original publication, Barbara Fields’s essay, “Ideology and Race in American History,” remains one of […]
We at ToM have started a yearly tradition of looking back at the works that most shaped our […]
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1971) and American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley – His Battle for […]
Today we begin to look at more recent works that influenced us — at least “recent” in historians’ […]