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Free Men: This Was Paris Burning

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Ed Rampell: What makes Free Men especially noteworthy is not only its depiction of noble Arabs resisting those ignoble Nazi savages, but the relationship between the Muslims and the Jews in occupied France.

The Body Reconsidered: The Art of Alina Szapocznikow

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Vivian Rothstein: Anyone who wonders how we human beings can endure indescribable suffering and come out the other end with something to say about it must see Alina Szapocznikow, Sculpture Undone at the Hammer museum before it closes April 30th.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen – and Americans, Too

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Ed Rampell: The Antaeus Company — which “strives to keep classical theater vibrantly alive by presenting productions with a top-flight ensemble company of actors” — has succeeded admirably in doing so by reviving two great anti-fascist dramas.ed

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold War

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Ed Rampell: When America was waist deep in the big muddy and the big fool said to push on, Colby was re-posted to Vietnam, where he ran a pacification program.

America Isn’t an Innocent Abroad

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Ron Briley: America is not the “Great Satan,” but neither is the United States the great innocent who disavows self-interest and empire in favor of promoting democracy.

Warfare State: World War II and the Age of Big Government

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Jim Cullen: It was not FDR’s New Deal that really transformed Americans’ relationship with their government, he says. It was FDR’s Second World War.

Essays in Gay, Community, & Labor History

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Doug Ireland: Equally penetrating are Bérubé’s reflections on the inter-relationship among class, race, and gender and sexuality that animated so much of his work, for he insisted, correctly, that “an understanding of virtually any aspect of modern queer culture must be, not merely incomplete, but damaged in its central substance to the degree that it does not incorporate a critical analysis of modern class relations.”

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Censored Art: The Return of the Repressed

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Paul Boyer: Beware, Governor LePage. Repressed or destroyed art has a way of surging back to public visibility, even after the would-be censors have faded to obscurity.

The South and America Since World War II

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By this point, the discourse on the place of the South, in the broadest sense of that phrase, is vast. Indeed, Cobb has spent the better part of a lifetime mastering it. The South and America is a useful place for the neophyte to begin.

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