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Victor Nuovo

  • Victor Nuovo: Elusive peace

    Editor’s note: This is the 64th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Historians have judged World War II to…

  • Victor Nuovo: FDR and the Second World War

    Editor’s note: This is the 63rd in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The Second World War began on Sept.…

  • Victor Nuovo: Roosevelt and the New Deal

    Editor’s note: This is the 62nd in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945)…

  • Victor Nuovo: Hoover and the Great Depression

    The Great Depression was an international economic catastrophe that lasted for a decade, 1929–1939. Its end came because of a second world catastrophe that caused a burst of…

  • Victor Nuovo: The Great War

    The First World War (1914-18), a.k.a. The Great War, was an epochal moment in world history. It brought the long 19th century to an end and marked the…

  • Victor Nuovo: Woodrow Wilson, scholar, president

    Editor’s note: This is the 59th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was elected president of…

  • Victor Nuovo: Racism and science

    Editor’s note: This is the 58th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Racism is a prejudice, and prejudices are…

  • Victor Nuovo: Theodore Roosevelt’s progressivism

    Editor’s note: This is the 57th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Like Populism, the Progressive Movement was embodied…

  • Victor Nuovo: The age of reform

    Editor’s note: This is the 56th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. “The Age of Reform” was an expression…

  • Victor Nuovo: The mind of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

    Editor’s note: This is the 55th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was not only a…

  • Victor Nuovo: Remembering ‘the ladies’

    Editor’s note: This is the 54th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Early in the spring of 1776, as…

  • Victor Nuovo: American Imperialism

    Editor’s note: This is the 53rd in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. The United States fought two wars of…

  • Victor Nuovo: How the West was won

    Editor’s note: This is the 52nd in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Basic to the idea of the frontier…

  • Letter to the editor: COVID-19 has created a critical, not hopeless, situation

    Nature has let loose an irresistible toxic agent against our species in the form of a virus, COVID-19. It is encircling the world, and many will be harmed…

  • Victor Nuovo: Reflections on the American Frontier

    Editor’s note: This is the 51st in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. In 1893, in commemoration of the 400th…

  • Victor Nuovo: Reflections on the Civil War

    Editor’s note: This is the 50th in a series of essays on the history and meaning of the American political tradition. Normally, I try to write the essays…