Q: What interested you most about Nancy Cunard?nnLois Gordon: Everything! Nancy was a gifted poet, publisher, journalist, and indefatigable social activist. She was also an extraordinarily beautiful woman who set fashion styles, inspired some of the greatest writers and artists...

“The tragedy of the left is that, having achieved an unprecedented victory in helping stop an appalling war, it then proceeded to commit suicide.” So writes Todd Gitlin about the aftermath of the Vietnam War in The Intellectual and Flags,...

Bruce Gilley is the author of The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy.nnQuestion: Isn’t legitimacy just smoke and mirrors, a way for the powerful to mystify and subdue the weak?nnBruce Gilley: Well, if that’s true then a...

The following is an interview with Loren Ghiglione, author of CBS’s Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism:nnQ:  Why should we care about a journalist who killed himself more than a half-century ago?nnLoren Ghiglione:  His life and death...

Irene Gendzier’s critically acclaimed, wide-reaching analysis of post-World War II U.S. policy in Lebanon posits that the politics of oil and pipelines figured far more significantly in U.S. relations with Lebanon than previously believed. In Notes from the Minefield, Irene...

The following is an interview with Dorothy N. Gamble, Clinical Associate Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Social Work and Marie Weil, Berg-Beach Distinguished Professor of Community Practice at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill...

Jonathan Freedman is the author of Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity. In this interview he discusses the book, the intertwined relationship between Jews and other ethnic groups throughout U.S. history, and the “klezmering” of America.nnQuestion: So, why did you write...