John Silas Reed (1887-1920), American revolutionist, poet, and journalist, became a symbol in many American minds of the Communist revolution in Russia. John Reed was born in the mansion of his maternal grandparents outside Portland, Ore., on Oct. 22,...

John Reed Born October 20, 1887 Portland, Oregon Died October 17, 1920 Moscow, Russia Journalist and revolutionary political activist John Reed was an adventurous, revolutionary journalist whose enthusiasm for reporting on world events was matched by...

John "Jack" Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 19, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World. He was the husband of the writer...

BRITISH MUSICOLOGISTS seem to have been disproportionately important in the study of the life and music of Franz Schubert. The first of these pioneers was Sir George Grove, founder of the dictionary that still bears his name today, who in 1867 went out to...

Americans tend to not understand social revolutions because their experience after 1776 was largely political. Thus, U.S. news accounts of the fighting which broke out in Mexico in 1910 considered the conflict as simply another exuberant Latin American coup d'etat, this time to end...