Harvey J. Kaye

Harvey J. Kaye is Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He is the author of Thomas Paine and the Promise of America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005) and The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Follow him on Twitter.

EMANCIPATION

Why Democrats Are Ready for Lincoln

<p>Take notes, progressives. As documented in the new book <em>A Just and Generous Nation</em>, the Great Emancipator’s vision of America’s exceptionalism rested on its civil equality and economic democracy.</p>

Harvey J. Kaye

E Pluribus Unum

American History For The Twitter Age

A new book takes on American history in the style of Steinbeck and Benet.

Harvey J. Kaye

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FLORIDA REDUX

Your Voting Rights Are Not Guaranteed

Ari Berman’s new book on voting rights—and how precarious they remain in modern elections—is a must-read before November 2016.

Harvey J. Kaye

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Self-Evident

America’s Presidential Daddy Issues

Who would Jefferson have liked best: FDR, Reagan—or the Tea Party? Three new books look at Americans’ never-ending fixation with what our formative figures would want us to do.

Harvey J. Kaye

IDOL

We Must Defend FDR's 'Four Freedoms'

When FDR died just a few months into his fourth term he had transformed American life in nearly every way. His achievements, and the obstacles he overcame, should not be forgotten.

Harvey J. Kaye

Harvey J. Kaye

Why Democrats Are Ready for Lincoln

American History For The Twitter Age

Your Voting Rights Are Not Guaranteed

America’s Presidential Daddy Issues

We Must Defend FDR's 'Four Freedoms'

The Rich’s Class Warfare Is Winning

The Shame of Conservative Intellectuals

What’s Great About the Great Society

How the Revolution Forged Washington

No, Obama Is Not Black Jesus