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Children eating a meal as part of the School Lunch program at a classroom in Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Dr. Janey Thornton is present for an event to launch International School Meals Day on March 8, 2013. The class is video conferencing to a school in Ayrshire, Scotland, with some of their children visible on the screens.
Today’s School Feeding Programs Grew Out of the “Penny Lunch” Tradition of a Century Ago
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls.
Why Today’s Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt
"Freedom From Want" - NARA poster 1943
The Spirit of 1947: This Thanksgiving Feed a Silent Guest and Build World Peace
close-up of an Eisenhower US coin
“In God We Trust” or “E Pluribus Unum”? The American Founders Preferred the Latter Motto
An Honored Medal: 1862-1896 Version of the Medal of Honor. Army Heritage Museum Collection.
Medal of Honor Upgrades Are Rare — And Should Be Rare
"The Magnet Citizenship" March 1917 cartoon by Henry Mayer - Moving Picture Weekly (1915-1920)
U.S. Citizenship Is Based on Principles, Not Heritage
Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.
Gays, Nazis, and the GOP
A black and white photo of Barry Goldwater in 1962.
Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater
100 and 10 US dollars banknotes.
Inflation — Fighting the Last War
A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.
Famine Strikes Again. Will America Respond?
Perry speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.
Governor Perry’s Vice-Presidential Mistake
The United Nations Office at Geneva (Switzerland) is the second biggest UN centre, after the United Nations Headquarters (New York City).
The U.N. may be dysfunctional, but it’s the kind of dysfunction that its founders intended
War News from Mexico (1848).
“Hostilities” and War Powers: Let’s Choose the Constitution
Visitors stroll the first section of the High Line Park, over the 18th Street crossing. Frank Gehry's IAC building is in the background.
The High Line: It’s About the Real Estate
The Prairie Dog is an anti-Jefferson satire, relating to Jefferson's covert negotiations for the purchase of West Florida from Spain in 1804.
Not American Enough? This Political Slur Has a Long History
Lydia Vargo and Teamster with delivery wagon in Toledo, Ohio c. 1920.
The National Park Service Explores the History of Farm Labor in America
Contrabands—fugitive slaves—cooks, laundresses, laborers, teamsters, railroad repair crews—fled to the Union Army, but were not officially freed until 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation.
In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” 1861.
The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History
Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White in open space, 1965.
Human Spaceflight Began Fifty Years Ago This Month, But Not Much Has Happened Lately
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) launches a Tomahawk missile in support of Operation Odyssey Dawn on March 19, 2011.
What Can Air Power Achieve? From Rolling Thunder to Odyssey Dawn
Demonstrators in steadily falling snow outside of the Wisconsin Capitol building.
Wisconsin: A History of Leading the Nation for Better or Worse
Philippoteaux - Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag.
The Challenges of 1848 Reprised in the Middle East Today
Members of the Free Officers welcomed by crowds in Cairo in January 1953.
The Egyptian Middle Class Is Disgruntled. Again.
Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.
The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle