Alice Kessler-Harris teaches at Columbia University. She writes about the history of wage-work and wage-earning women. Her most recent book is A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman.
Alice Kessler-Harris
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Was That All There Was to the Left?
In the wake of Pete Seeger’s death in January, eulogies, memorials, and obituaries routinely mentioned his youthful communist affiliation. The famous folk singer had, like many of his contemporaries in the world of arts and music, joined the Communist Party (CPUSA) as a young man. He did so in the late 1930s—a time when not […]
