Anti-Semitism

Leonard Dinnerstein | October 1996

He was a Northerner. He was an industrialist. He was a Jew. And a young girl was murdered in his factory.

ON DECEMBER 23, 1983, THE LEAD EDITORIAL IN THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION began, “Leo Frank has been lynched a second time.” The first lynching had occurred almost 70 years earlier, when Leo Frank, convicted murderer of a t13-

Germany’s America

V. R. Berghahn | May/June 1995

For a century and a half, Germans have been deeply ambivalent about the United States, and their contradictory feelings say much about their future in Europe and the world.

In 1989, the Berlin wall came down. A year later the unimaginable had become a reality: Germany, divided in 1945, was reunified, and it was beginning to raise a major voice not only in Europe but also in world politics.

The American Dreyfus

Gene Smith | November 1994

There was no evidence that Captain Rosenbluth was a murderer, but Henry Ford set out to prove him one.

On an October afternoon in 1918, Major Alexander Pennington "Buddy" Cronkhite took practice with a .45 at a tobacco can atop a post at Camp Lewis, Washington.

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