Author: Aidan Campbell

• What FDR Can Teach Us About Congress and National Emergencies

  by Martin Halpern Martin Halpern is professor emeritus of history at Henderson State University and the author of UAW Politics in the Cold War Era and Unions, Radicals, and Democratic Presidents: Seeking Social Change…

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  Nazis and communists tried it too: Foreign interference in US elections dates back decades

  Two campaigns, in 1940 and 1960, featured bold attempts by hostile foreign powers to put their preferred candidates in the Oval Office…

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  If You Ask Me: The Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

  A new book compiled from ER’s writings by the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers project at GWU.

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  75th Anniversary of Repeal of Chinese Exclusion Act

  In 1943, Congress passed a measure to repeal the discriminatory exclusion laws against Chinese immigrants…

• Remembering the House F.D.R. Built (Well, His Mother Did)

  By James Barron Nov. 29, 2018   The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin stood in a place she had described in her most recent book. “This was where he crawled,” she said. “He” was…

• What Do the Democrats Need in 2020?

  by Walter G. Moss Walter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University and Contributing Editor of HNN. Among his publications are An Age of Progress?Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces,various…