Dr. Alec Kirby
Associate Professor of American History and Government

University of Wisconsin-Stout

 

"The real fight today is against inhuman, relentless exercise of capitalistic power...  The present struggle in which we are engaged is for social and industrial justice." -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

 


"The truth is, we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless."

                        Woodrow Wilson 

 

      Modern U.S. History

 History of the Vietnam War

"All this madness, all this rage, all this flaming death of our civilization and our hopes, has been brought about because a set of official gentlemen, living luxurious lives, mostly stupid, and all without imagination or heart, have chosen that it should occur ."

      Bertrand Russell, after World War I

       Early U.S. History

   African American History

"fas-cism (fbsh'iz'em) n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism." 

      American Government

          Diversity Connections Project

“Capitalism is the curious idea that the nastiest of men, with the nastiest of motives, will somehow work for the benefit of mankind.”

J. M. Keynes

 

                                                                      

 

           Curriculum Vitae

Anti-War.com

                Social Science Department


 

Ask not what your country can do for you.....

"And so, in my State of the--my State of the Union--or state--my speech to the nation, whatever
you want to call it, speech to the nation--I asked Americans to give 4,000 years--4,000 hours
over the next--the rest of your life--of service to America.  That's what I asked--4,000 hours."
  
                                                                                              George W. Bush, April 9, 2002