Mr. Freeberg is the author of Democracy’s Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent, published this summer by Harvard University Press. He is a history professor at the ...

Eugene V. Debs, 5 times Socialist candidate for President, set free from prison on Christmas Day. 1921. Courtesy: Library of Congress Outspoken leader of the labor movement, Eugene Debs opposed ...

As this excerpt from Eugene V. Debs: A Graphic Biography (illustrated by Noah Van Sciver, written by Paul Buhle and Steve Max with Dave Nance, and published by Verso this March) reminds us, th ...

Eugene V. Debs Hall is partnering with Subversive Theatre Collective and Buffalo DSA to inaugurate its annual May Day celebration on Sunday, May 1, 4 to 10 pm, at 483 Peckham Street.

First, some background on Eugene V. Debs Hall from Explore Buffalo: Eugene V. Debs Hall is a restored 1914 saloon first opened by saloonkeeper John M. Kucharski and owned by the Schreiber Brewing ...

Any appeals process may delay his possible jail time by years, if he goes at all. Socialist Eugene V. Debs ran from behind bars over 100 years ago In 1920, Socialist Eugene V. Debs ran for the ...

That piece of history belongs to Eugene V. Debs, who ran on the Socialist Party ticket in 1920 — and garnered almost a million votes, or about 3 per cent. The circumstances are obviously different.

Show more Eugene Victor Debs, born 1855 in Indiana USA, was a railway worker, a trade unionist and a five time candidate for the presidency. He was imprisoned during the First World War for sedition.

Eugene V. Debs ran for president in 1920 from jail, but we obviously can’t have an incarcerated sitting president. Trump ran out the clock until he was elected president. Had he failed in the ...