Mike Elk's long piece on southern white masculinity and the defeat of the UAW in Chattanooga is well worth your time. There's a long history in the South of working-class whites showing political deference to their social and financial superiors and it came to play again...
Bruce Ackerman just released the third book in his We the People series on American constitutionalism. Very roughly, the argument he's making is that the Reconstruction and New Deal eras.
If there's one thing I learned when the gun nuts attacked me in late 2012, it's that conservatives take the specifics of language very seriously and abhor violence. That's why.
US News has just published data on class of 2013 law school graduate debt. Matt Leichter points out that an unusually large number of ABA schools -- 14 out of 201 -- chose not to reveal this figure to US News (Schools are required to report...
On March 14, 1954, the great labor film Salt of the Earth, a fictionalized version of a 1950 Mine, Mill strike in the zinc mines of southwestern New Mexico, premiered.
The U.S. military's use of film during World War II was remarkable. The bravery of the cameramen, risking and often losing their lives, in taking this footage is amazing. Of.
Columbia University named the 2014 winners for the Bancroft Prize today, which is the most prestigious prize in the field of U.S. history. This year's winners are both close to LGM's heart. One winner was Ira Katznelson's Fear Itself, which Scott reviewed here. The other winner...
It's almost NCAA Tournament time! I have reactivated the LGM Tourney Challenge League, but if you're new the Challenge, here's the info: League Name: Lawyers, Guns and Money Password: zevon.
The Supreme Court's odious ruling on the Medicaid expansion in NFIB v. Sebelius has had awful direct effects, leading to millions of people being denied health care. But, as Alec.
The American Federation of Government Employees released an interesting press release today: The American Federation of Government Employees today expressed its profound disappointment regarding a plea deal that will allow one of two inmates charged with killing a correctional officer in 2008 to escape the death...
I look forward to Republicans discovering the interstates are a socialist program and thus Interstate 5 Brought to You by Microsoft can be a pothole-ridden road that would make no.
For some of these women, this will probably be the most lucrative work their Ph.D. will ever get them.