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Category: History

What June 1950 can teach us about June 2021

June 18, 2021 Christopher Burke History, Uncategorized Leave a comment

In June of 1950, Joe DiMaggio got his 2,000th hit. Guam was designated a United States Territory, and its residents were granted US citizenship. Budge

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750 historians say Trump should be impeached

December 17, 2019 Renee Shur 2020 Election, Activism, Candidates, Constitution, History, Protest/Resistamce, Trump, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

With the release of a public letter explaining their reasons for supporting the impeachment of Donald J. Trump, more than 750 American historians are

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The true story of Thanksgiving: Not what we learned in school

November 25, 2019 Sue Evans History Leave a comment

American children are taught in grade school that the Pilgrims came to North America seeking religious freedom.  In actuality, they had disembarked  for America

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Dole-Byrd

The Redemption of Robert Byrd and What Biden Could Learn

July 9, 2019 Reece Ellis 2020 Election, Bob Dole, Civil liberties, Civil Rights, Democracy, History, Politics, Racial issues, Senate Leave a comment

In his autobiography Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields he said “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again.”

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Bill Proxmire and the Art of Fundraising

June 7, 2019 Reece Ellis Bob Dole, History, Money & Politics, Politics, Voting/Elections Leave a comment

Proxmire in the elections where he eschewed campaign donations was still re-elected by large margins, 29 points in 1982 and 46 points in 1976.

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Abortion: as old as pregnancy itself

April 14, 2019 Renee Shur Civil Rights, History, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

One of the most contentious and emotionally charged issues in American politics today is the issue of abortion and a woman’s right to choose.

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Montgomery

On hearing “The Darktown Strutters’ Ball” in Montgomery, Alabama

March 30, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Cities, Civil Rights, History, Racial issues Leave a comment

Visiting Montgomery, Alabama to see the civil rights sites, we walked over to the old train station along the riverfront. Inside what appears to

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In defense of Trump, and 5th Grade Students

February 21, 2019 Arthur Lieber History, Trump Leave a comment

From the very beginning, Donald Trump has had difficulty understanding that the Justice Department is not like every other cabinet office. He does not have unilateral control of it. The Justice Department can bite back at him, and he doesn’t like it.

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tariffs

Protest letters: Economists try to educate Trump on perils of tariffs

February 6, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Economy, History, Protest/Resistance, Widgets: Letters of protest Leave a comment

In May 2018, more than eleven hundred American economics teachers and  economists, among them eleven Nobel Prize winners, banded together to sign an open

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snow

Conquering snow, old-style

January 26, 2019 Renee Shur Cities, History, Technology Leave a comment

Awakened recently at four and then six in the morning by the clanking and booming of salt trucks and snow plows lumbering outside my

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