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(Right here is the place to enter your email address, rather than at the top of the page.)- Benjamin F. Alexander teaches American History and Government at the New York City College of Technology in Brooklyn, and holds a PhD in History from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center. He is the author of The New Deal's Forest Army: How the Civilian Conservation Corps Worked (JHU Press, 2018) and Coxey's Army: Popular Protest in the Gilded Age (JHU Press, 2015), both of which can be ordered directly from the Hopkins Press website at a 30% discount with the code HTWN. He resides in Bloomfield, NJ, just outside of New York City.
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Author Archives: Benjamin F. Alexander
Under Siege by “Political Correctness”: How an Overdrawn Fiction Is Cultivated and Rehearsed, Part 1
Throughout the 2016 election campaigns, we heard constant references to Donald Trump’s supposed virtue of not being “politically correct,” and since the election we have had many commentators tell us that part of why he won is that people were fed … Continue reading
