The American Dictatorship?
In 1935 Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t Happen Here the author argued that it can happen here, but the common feeling is that in the US that a dictatorship is not possible. However, the behavior of Donald Trump has for
Emeritus Status
Spencer Di Scala has retired from the University of Massachusetts and has been named Professor of History Emeritus. He continues teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in history online at the university (for which he has won New England regional and
Trump and Nuclear Proliferation
This year, as NATO marks its seventieth birthday, President Trump’s actions directed at dismantling the alliance raise the crucial question of whether this policy will hasten a nightmare scenario that has shadowed humanity since nuclear weapons were first developed: proliferation.
“Giovanni Pieraccini: Reflections on the Center-Left”
My chapter, “Giovanni Pieraccini: Reflections on the Center-Left,” was published in Alssandro Giacone, Giovanni Pieraccini nel socialismo riformista italiano, Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli (38, N. 133), April 2018: 57-67 (Florence).
Mussolini 1883 – 1915
Mussolini 1883 – 1915: Triumph and Transformation of a Revolutionary Socialist (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) [with Emilio Gentile] Di Scala has again partnered with Emilio Gentile to edit a new Mussolini volume that explores the same theme as Mussolini socialista. This