Debs Dispatch | Shawn Gude | Substack

At the risk of shoehorning every anniversary or holiday into a Debs Dispatch post, I thought I’d bring you an excerpt in honor of MLK’s death anniversary tomorrow. It’s taken from Sylvie Laurent’s fascinating book King and the Other America, which looks at the oft-forgotten Poor…

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I’ve always found it tragic that we don’t have any audio of Eugene Debs’s voice. What was so resonant, so stirring to audiences — its timbre, its pitch…

Mar 24

I just came across this and thought I’d share: Debs, in one of his final articles, using the Osage murders to excoriate the crimes committed against…

Mar 9

Cold. Ostentatious. Hostile to socialist politics. Kate Debs, Eugene’s wife, has gotten a bad rap. With few exceptions, historians and biographers have…

Mar 8

Eugene Debs revered John Brown as “history’s greatest hero,” a man who saw an unspeakable horror and tried to dash it from the world. In October 1908…

Jan 25

Research can be a slog — endless scrolling through obscure newspapers, mind-numbing traversals of microfilm, dead end after dead end. But sometimes you…

Jan 13

I just came across a gem of a Debs article and figured I’d share it as New Years treat. Published in May 1923 in the black socialist magazine The…

Jan 4

In recent months, I’ve put writing on the back burner and focused on plumbing the archives, both digital and physical. Two subjects have consumed my…

Dec 2, 2021

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