From the Progressive movement in the early 1900s to today, the chief criticism of the Constitution, created this week (Sept. 17) in 1787, is that it is outdated – it may have been germane to the late 18th century, but not to modern times. The Founding Fathers never anticipated such ...
For the title “Death Merchant of the Last Millennium” I nominate Mao Zedong, the longtime leader of Communist China. And the bulk of my evidence comes from one event – the Great Leap Forward – that Mao set in motion this week (Sept. 12) in 1958. It was easily the greatest single ...
World War II ended with VJ Day (Victory over Japan) this week (Sept. 2) in 1945, when the Japanese became the last holdout to formally surrender. Just as the war had been life-changing for so many Americans, so would its end, for women as well as men.The war necessitated millions of American ...
In 1786, having won the American Revolution, America was an independent nation, but one with a huge debt because of the millions of dollars it borrowed to finance that war. Also, with the war over, European ships loaded with goods were flooding American ports, but war-impoverished Americans ...
Prior to Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland in September of 1939 there had been a series of “concentration camps” for the Jews that were located in Germany proper, but these “concentration camps” were mostly labor camps in which some Jews were killed, but most died because they were ...
The famous Woodstock Music Festival, which began 50 years ago this week (Aug. 15) in 1969, featured many prominent musicians, including Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Santana and Jimi Hendrix, but the most galvanizing performance was when Country Joe and the Fish, a band ...
