“By the time you get this letter I will be in Europe. I am going to Spain,” wrote 19-year-old Joe Selligman Jr. to his parents in December 1936. “Please don’t try to follow or catch me or anything.” ...
Author Adam Hochschild says Wilson used the first World War as an excuse to spy on Americans, censor the press and plan for the mass deportation... Woodrow Wilson led the U.S. into WWI. He also waged ...
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939, by Adam Hochschild. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 464 pages. $30. Some eighty years ago, several thousand young Americans went to Spain ...
You could be forgiven for thinking that we live in uniquely horrible times. Four 21st-century horsemen haunt us—a baking planet, the next pandemic, technological singularity, and nuclear war. In the ...
A Century After WWI’s End, Adam Hochschild Cautions: “Think Long and Hard Before Starting a New War”
Between 1914 and 1918, about 10 million civilians perished in World War I, and almost 10 million soldiers were killed. Another 21 million were wounded. This week marks the 100th anniversary of the ...
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