Richard is interviewed by Allen Ruff on “A Public Affair,” WORT Radio, Madison, Wisconsin, April 25, 2024.
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Richard is interviewed by Allen Ruff on “A Public Affair,” WORT Radio, Madison, Wisconsin, April 25, 2024.
At sixty-nine and in ill-health, Wisconsin U.S. Senator Robert M. La Follette made a third-party run for the White House in 1924. The long-time progressive…
The following review of Richard Drake’s Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism by Bill Kauffman first appeared in the American Conservative…
Paul Buhle wrote an excellent review article which appeared on the Progressive Magazine’s website on February 20, 2019. The piece titled “Charles Beard: Bob La Follette’s Friend” is…
Richard was recently interviewed by Mark Klobas for the New Books Biography podcast and discussed at length his path from Italian history to the subjects…
The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin published a review of The Education of an Anti-Imperialist on April 19, 2017 which I wanted to share here.…
The following Letter to the Editor appeared in the March 2016 102 (4) issue of the Journal of American History. To the Editor: “Interchange: World War I,” the online…
(Note: The following article first appeared on The Daily Call, February 23, 2016.) By Richard DrakeSpecial to the Daily Call On 4 April 1917, Senator Robert La…
The following first appeared on The Daily Call, May 25, 2015. Then As Now: We Need To Mourn Our Own And All The Victims Of Our…
The following review of The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert M. LaFollette and U.S. Expansion first appeared on the History News Network and is republished here with…