Isaiah Oggins was an American-born communist and spy for the Soviet secret police. After working in Europe and the Far East, Oggins was arrested, served eight years in the Gulag detention system, and
The American Thread Company's Jillson Mills in Willimantic, Connecticut, where Oggins was born and grew up
Early 20th-century photo of Harbin, site of Oggins' last posting before his arrest by the Soviets
21st-century photo of Norillag (the Norilsk GULAG), where Oggins spent most of his imprisonment
Oggins died while under observation by Grigory Mairanovsky of the effects of curare (here, as part of a South American hunting kit)
Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living. In 1915, he was dismissed from a teaching position at the Wha
Nearing in 1915
Nearing in an illustration for the New York Call 1918