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Group of women marching with signs: "GWU Women's Liberation," "I'm a second-class citizen," "Women demand equality"

A Slut from East Toledo (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 5)

… women's rights activism certainly continued, it did not compare to the widespread organization of the suffrage … Latinos, Chicanos, and Japanese men, served in the armed forces in large numbers. Meanwhile, women and those who … on the Status of Women. This committee, staffed almost completely by anti-ERA feminists like Eleanor …
President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.

How to Intervene and Get Out

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … because Johnson exaggerated the threat of outside communists in what was a civil conflict. Yet the President … suggested as much to the public by letting OAS diplomats mediate, since they understood Dominican politics better …
Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech.

How Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech Still Matters

… didn't move beyond their own self interest and embrace a common good. He called on Americans to unify themselves … way of life, it won Carter huge amounts of support. Immediately after the speech, Carter's poll numbers shot up, … presidency. He got more letters than he ever had before, almost all of them positive. Citizens pledged they would ride …
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.

Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies

Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon (New York: Basic Books, 2018)
… Do the police reify inequality by targeting low-income communities of color or are they the “thin blue line” … spending on housing, education, and welfare as the remedy for riots. Looking back on that report, Stephen Gillon … the liberal line. But according to Gillon, in his last (and most interesting) chapters, “conservative newspapers, …
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

… II’s abdication the preceding February, but it had lost almost all support as Russia’s horrific World War I casualties … part. Over the next three years, the Bolsheviks (soon renamed Communists) would have to win power in a bloody civil war …
The 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding

How Presidential Power Became Untouchable

… or the Republican who aspires to succeed him. If so, the outcome will reinforce conclusions previously drawn from the … that Richard Nixon at his boldest would not have claimed while seeking office. An expansive interpretation of … nor the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people, except for the ACLU and the trial lawyers, …
A tractor purchased through the Marshall Plan for France.

Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq

… Not any funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both … the Duchy of Fenwick possessing the “Q-bomb,” the world’s most powerful weapon, and demanding far more than just aid. …
San Francisco earthquake 1906

San Francisco 1906 and Katrina 2005: The Increasing Costs of Unpreparedness

… that followed the earthquake wiping out its business and commercial districts. Still the scope of the two disasters … sometime in the next fifty years California will be revisited by an event similar to the 1906 quake or the flooding … and a landslide on Washington's Mount Rainier. The most likely event is a levee failure on the Sacramento …
George H. W. Bush Speaking in St. Louis, 1988. Behind him is Missouri Governor John Ashcroft.

The Danger of Scaring the Voters

… strategists have long been concerned that Americans would become complacent” about the war on terrorism. “Skepticism by … the campaign agenda.  No one knows which path will win the most votes. Two things are certain, though. The voters’ …
New York stock market index from 1926 to 1939

Can the Global Crisis of the Nineties Lead to Another Great Depression?

… and the Nineties, and does history offer “lessons” from a comparison? Some of the similarities are certainly … susceptible today to the wild investment schemes that were common in 1929. Furthermore, the Fed has played an effective … trade and made the international situation worse. The most disturbing evidence from this historical comparison …
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An abbreviated list of what came to be subsumed under the catch-all name “Watergate” includes … of course, crimes, but if Clinton were ever shown to have committed these offenses, these would be his only crimes. In …

The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis

… the machine when I heard some Greek expletives and saw a commotion in front of me. The ATM ran out of money. I spent … rule, Greece remained a poorer territory of the empire and most of the population were farmers forced to pay heavy … Today, instead of financial Band-Aids that remedy only superficially, what Greece needs is more …
John Kerry addressing reporters in 2015.

What’s a Convention For, Any More?

… role of money and momentum. This year, conventions were almost completely removed from the selection of a nominee. For all … nominee Adlai Stevenson, seeking to jumpstart his doomed challenge to President Eisenhower, unexpectedly allowed …
Print of a tar and feathering in Boston from1774.

Economic Justice — in the Streets

… public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too … Congress and the White House, the Maryland bank directors trusted Taney, installed in 1833 by President Jackson as … the property of the bank’s directors and lawyers. Exquisite houses came down, imported furniture burned in the …
Seal of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. The seal is described in 36 C.F.R. § 1200.2 as: The seal is centered on a disc with a double-line border. The words NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION encircle the inside of the seal and the date 1985 is at the bottom center.

Downgrading the Founders

… the charge went, this crime against the past was being committed by leftist academics out of touch with their … agency, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, decided late in 1996, by a one-vote margin, to … D.C., was co-founder of the History News Service. He is most recently the editor of A Century of American …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.

Spring Marches on Washington

… Mounted on a white charger, General Douglas MacArthur confirmed his arrogant reputation by ordering his men to attack their former comrades in arms with tear gas and riot weapons and burn … bitter end of the bonus march. Lacking support even from most civil rights organizations, it ended in squalor, won …
The floor seal of the Central Intelligence Agency

Getting Others to Fight Our Wars

… United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … that belief, and even top-level Washington planners assumed that if the exiles faced defeat, Kennedy would relent … be far more reluctant to encourage them. Undoubtedly, the most worrisome factor in any alliance is each ally’s …
The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Book Cover

The Jamestown Project

Review of The Jamestown Project, by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders in 1963.

Giving Up on the Dream?

… to stir the nation after four decades. Yet the black community still struggles to decide whether to follow King’s … biblical approach to leadership that has allowed the black community to proudly maintain its political independence … C. Kashatus's is a writer for the History News Service. His most recent book is "Money Pitcher: The Tragedy of Indian …