Entries by Marcus M. Witcher

The New Deal’s Dark Underbelly

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

When I arrived at the University of Alabama almost a decade ago to begin graduate school and met the historian David Beito (who would become the co-advisor on my dissertation), he was just beginning a project on Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s disregard for Americans’ civil liberties. Most critics of FDR point to Executive Order 9066 which […]

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