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Cover of Wounded Knee Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre by Heather Cox Richardson

Where Our Hearts Are Still Buried

Review of Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre, by Heather Cox Richardson (New York: Basic Books, 2010)
… man refused to give up his gun and the edgy soldiers opened fire. At least 150 Sioux men, women, and children were …
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing

Bombing Hiroshima

… dozens of Japanese and German cities in ruins. The American firebombing of Tokyo caused much of the city to burn down …
Abraham Lincoln Campaign Poster 1860

"Great God, What does it Mean?" - Lee's Escape at Williamsport

… The attack disintegrated in the face of determined Northern fire, the Union troops unwilling to yield crucial ground. … 14, they found only abandoned entrenchments and smoking campfires; Lee had escaped the night before. Lincoln gave way to …
A Sherman tank enters Fort Santiago

The Battle for Manila

… while machine gun nests lay in wait for those fleeing the fires. Rape, pillage, and summary executions accelerated as … the Manileños also faced indiscriminate American artillery fire. Meeting block-by-block resistance, U.S. forces poured …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… gas bubble grew, threatening to touch off a massive fire. In the end, however, the bubble dissipated. The … and spewed radioactive material onto the roof. Ominous fires broke out. Faulty communications, panic and … bureaucratic inertia beset the response, and in the process firefighters and others lost lives. Radiation spread through …
Image reading "there is no news tonight"

“No News Day” at the BBC

… British newspaper gleefully observed, a notable death, a fire, and an automobile accident—the kind of material that …

1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe

… the death of Jan Palach, the student who set himself on fire to protest the military suppression of the Prague … in the city of Timisoara, the security services opened fire on the crowd. On 21 December, Ceausescu called for a … chanting slogans against him. Representatives of Securitate fired against the demonstrators, which unleashed a popular …
seedlings

Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future

… and electrical equipment. It was again, this kind of fire-retardant material that ended up in everything. And … book of technologies that had great promise, but that backfire in ways... and I actually think that human story of … 1960s. But All detergent, by the 1960s, was coming under fire. And one of the builders in All is a phosphate-based …
Gunslingers in the 19th century. This is the Ned Christie posse.

Gun Control and the Old West

… of Dakota Territory in 1884 called the idea of carrying firearms into the city a “dangerous practice,” not only to …
 Reagan in 1982.

Measuring Reagan for Greatness

… speakers. FDR used radio effectively, and his famous “fireside chats” played a critical role in drumming up …