Author: Aidan Campbell

• What FDR Understood About Socialism That Today’s Democrats Don’t

  He ruled at the height of government activism, but saw ideology as something to fear, not embrace.

• Nearly turned back, a ship of Holocaust refugees got help from Eleanor Roosevelt

  At NYC premiere of documentary ‘Nobody Wants Us,’ filmmaker Laura Seltzer-Duny says US first lady’s efforts to save Jews aboard the SS Quanza should be emulated today

• A Blundering Churchill, a Farsighted Roosevelt

  By Peter Baker May 8, 2019 WAR AND PEACE  FDR’s Final Odyssey, D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945  By Nigel Hamilton Admittedly, it is a pretty geeky parlor game, maybe one that has…

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  When conservatives went to war over SF post office murals

  By Gary Kamiya May 31, 2019 In recent years, most of the attacks on public art in San Francisco have come from the left — the fight to remove from Civic…

• Senator Grassley says the New Deal didn’t work; historians have other ideas

  Republished from HistoryChecked with permission of Allen Mikaelian Sen. Charles Grassley: “The New Deal in the 1930s didn’t work. It didn’t get us out of the Great Depression” I would like…

• An Earlier Age When the United States Kept Immigrants Out

  By Anna Altman April 24, 2019 [BOOK REVIEW] THE UNWANTED  America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between By Michael Dobbs On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, Hedy Wachenheimer rode…