Contains entries for individuals, institutions, and events, focusing mostly on the U.S. Entries cover topics in science, history, literature, theater and entertainment, and ...

Covers all the people, events, movements, subjects, court cases, inventions, and more that defined the Gilded Age.

"In his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper himself had the final words on American Communism: "It is like a museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has ...

Fraser M. Ottanelli examines the history of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) from the stock market crash to the reconstitution of the Party in 1945. He explains ...

This companion volume to The Roots of American Communism brings to completion what the author describes as the essence of the relationship of American Communism to Soviet ...

Arguments about whether distinctive features of American society, culture, political structure, economic system, or population account for the relative weakness of American ...