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Conversations with Staughton and Alice Lynd
Alice and Staughton Lynd met each other at Harvard Summer School in 1950. They married in 1951 and moved to a utopian community in Georgia in 1954. From 1961 to 1964 the Lynds lived on the campus of Spelman College, a college for African American women in Atlanta. There Staughton taught history in a department headed by Howard Zinn, who became a close friend. In summer 1964, Staughton coordinated \"freedom schools\" in Mississippi Summer. Beginning in 1965, Alice took up the practice of counseling young men who faced difficult decisions when called for military service. She published accounts of war objecters in a book entitled We Won't G. Husband and wife both went to law school and became lawyers. They worked together at Northeast Ohio Legal Services until their retirement in 1996, specializing in employment law. Here, the works of Alice and Staughton are detailed.
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Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery: Toward an Economic Interpretation of American Independence
“Free Trade, Sovereignty, and Slavery” offers a broad economic interpretation of the coming of the American Revolution. It does not ignore or discount leadership and political rhetoric but seeks to overcome what the authors term “historiographical amnesia” concerning economic causes. Examination of arguments made both in Great Britain and by delegates to the First and Second Continental Congresses, as well as the reasoning of Thomas Jefferson’s several “dress rehearsals” for the Declaration of Independence, reveals unappreciated relationships between the Founders’ desire to break away from imperial regulation of trade and their failure to abolish slavery. The essay perceives the American Revolution as one among many efforts by colonies anxious to determine their own destinies rather than the ‘exceptional’ event presented both by recent scholarship and by opinion makers outside the academy.
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Reflections on Economic Interpretation, Slavery, the People Out of Doors, and Top Down versus Bottom Up
Staughton Lynd and David Waldstreicher attempt to cut across old divisions in the historiography of the American Revolution between whigs and progressives (or neo-whigs and neo-progressives) to argue that the Revolution was a colonial independence movement and the reasons for it were fundamentally economic. Robert G. Parkinson, Jack Rakove, Barbara Clark Smith, and Michael A. McDonnell respond to the essay; the Forum concludes with Lynd and Waldstreicher’s reply.
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Closely Approaching Advanced Age in a Supermax Prison
When a Social Security recipient reaches the age of 50 years, he or she is classified as \"closely approaching advanced age.\" Todd Ashker is passing this tipping point at Pelican Bay State Prison in California, a supermaximum security facility. My wife and I have corresponded with Mr. Ashker for more than half a dozen years. Although I cannot verify the details of his account, we believe that his representation of facts is generally reliable. He is one of the spokespersons for prisoners who conducted two hunger strikes in 2011 protesting conditions of their confinement. Another, sixty-day hunger strike took place in 2013. Thus, what follows is a story of resilience as well as victimization.
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DOING HISTORY IN AND OUT OF ACADEMIA
Dutchess County Tenants and New York City Artisans At that point, I went to Columbia University seeking graduate degrees in American history. Soon after writing a long and prescient letter to President Thomas Jefferson about the probable proslavery consequences of the Louisiana Purchase, Paine died, alone except for a handful of friends (including two African Americans) who followed his casket to his farm in New Rochelle for burial.
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