Category: Noel Ignatiev’s Blog

  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev One morning years ago, as I entered the classroom in a course I taught on U.S. history,…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev As probably everybody reading this knows, Atticus Finch is the central character in Harper Lee’s novel To…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev American society is a time-bomb where the big explosion, whatever its form might be, is endlessly hinted…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev Recently a world geography textbook used in Texas high schools sparked protests. In a section of the…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev The fear that is gripping France today stands in ghastly contrast with the positive national mood during…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Richard GreemanPosted by Noel Ignatiev Montpellier, FranceTuesday Nov. 17 Dear Friends, Faced with the shock of the bloody attacks…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev As each day has brought fresh evidence, many who a week ago excitedly hailed Missouri as a…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev In my youth I belonged to a group called the Provisional Organizing Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Party…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev    I am a political person.  I spent decades in workers' rights and community struggles and the…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev There are those who think that because something is about class it cannot also be about race.…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev A former student sent me a link to an article in The Guardian (U.S. Edition) of July…
  • September 2, 2019
    By Noel Ignatiev How we look at the past reveals a great deal about us in the present.  Consider a…
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