Peter Ling
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The black activist Malcolm X was not a civil rights leader. Nor was he a victim of the mass media. He was its beneficiary, in life and death, argues Peter Ling. Published December 21 2011
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Peter Ling reviews a title on modern American history by Philip Jenkins. Published May 14 2009
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Published December 18 2006
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The US Supreme Court looks likely to overturn the Federal law on abortion. Nicholas Hill and Peter Ling look at the political background to the legal argument. Published September 18 2006
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Peter Ling argues that Thomas Jefferson’s ideas have had dramatic continent-wide effects on the landscape and ecology of the United States. Published January 1 2004
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Peter Ling analyses Martin Luther King's involvement with non-violent protest in the USA. Published February 28 2003
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Peter Ling surveys two new titles on the history of race-relations.
Published October 22 2002
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Peter Ling describes how the refusal of four black students to accept a lunch-counter colour bar led to the collapse of segregation in the American south.
Published February 1 2000
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Robert Dallek
Published March 1 1999
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Peter Ling argues that, by adulating King for his work in the Civil Rights campaigns, we have misrepresented the complexity of those struggles and ignored some of the equally challenging campaigns of his last years. Published April 30 1998
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Peter Ling captures Edison's last breath and other icons of American progress at the Ford Museum at Greenfield Village. Published January 1 1996
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Peter Ling reviews two new books on vices
Published March 1 1994
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Peter Ling compares the impact of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X on black culture in the 90s. Published March 31 1993
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Peter Ling reviews a new publication on women and the motor car
Published March 31 1992
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'Brothels on wheels' thundered the moralists but Peter Ling argues the advent of mass motoring in the 1920s was only one of the changes in social and group relationships that made easier the pursuit of carnal desire. Published November 1 1989
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