Artist statement: “American Demagogues An Unbroken Succession” consists of 20 expressive brush drawings of individuals along with a biography focused on demagoguery. One person’s demagogue is another ...

As Hercules might have told him, a man cannot be toocareful about his shirts. No Hercules in any sense, William Dudley Pelley might well have felt last week that he had unwarily donned the shirt of ...

The year 1935 began in Asheville not with news of Depression-era woes and remedies, but with fears of immigrants. Headlines sensationalized the trial and execution of Bruno Hauptmann, a German ...

The State Attorney General’s Office has appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court from a county court order that freed William Dudley Pelley, former leader of the Silver Shirts. The action was taken on ...

Preparations were under way here today for the trial on charges of sedition of William Dudley Pelley, notorious anti-Semite, who was seized in Darien, Conn., Saturday morning by agents of the Federal ...

William Dudley Pelley, leader of the Silver Shirts, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic organization with headquarters in Asheville, N. C., was in this city today secretly working on organization plans to ...

William Dudley Pelley, former leader of the anti-Semitic Silver Shirts movement who was convicted of wartime sedition, has lost a new appeal for release from the Federal Penitentiary, it was reported ...

Deputy marshals left Washington last night for the Federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. to bring back William Dudley Pelley, the anti-Semitic leader of the Silver Shits, who was sentenced last ...