Department of Weekend Reading: August 15, 2014

Summer 2014: Ferguson, MO: “This isn’t Iraq. This is America;”turning Ferguson into a war zone;The National Reviewon the conservative reaction; once again, blaming “outside agitators.”
2012: One of the city’s most segregated cities has its own dividing line: Delmar Boulevard.
2010: Growing up black in St. Louis.
1950s–60s: The real reason that thePruitt-Igoe housing complex failed.
Summer 1949: The St. Louis swimming pool race riotthat the city tried to forget.
Summer 1917: The devastating and dea...