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Category: History

SUNDAY ESSAY: The Crying Game and the Big Lie

October 16, 2022

In 1992, a film about gender found a way to present virtue without pretending gender is a construct … More SUNDAY ESSAY: The Crying Game and the Big Lie

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ON THIS DAY: Mao Dies

September 9, 2022

Chairman Mao killed more people that Stalin or Hitler, but he is not a figure of revulsion in China. … More ON THIS DAY: Mao Dies

ON THIS DAY: Mao Dies

Reading Dobbs

August 29, 2022

Read the critical cases yourself. Understand both sides. It is your duty as a citizen. … More Reading Dobbs

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ON THIS DAY: Manson Family Murders

August 9, 2022

An inexplicable series of murders revealed a cult of killers in the long summer of 1969… … More ON THIS DAY: Manson Family Murders

ON THIS DAY: Manson Family Murders

ON THIS DAY: Nixon Resigns from the Presidency

August 8, 2022

Nixon resigns, and thus, the tragic fate of South Vietnam was sealed. A new era of venomous politics begins. … More ON THIS DAY: Nixon Resigns from the Presidency

ON THIS DAY: Nixon Resigns from the Presidency

ON THIS DAY: Humans Reach The Moon

July 20, 2022

The achievement of the Americans who reached the moon will stand for all time as a monument to human ingenuity. … More ON THIS DAY: Humans Reach The Moon

ON THIS DAY: Humans Reach The Moon

ON THIS DAY: First Nuclear Explosion Called Trinity

July 16, 2022

The Trinity bomb test proved that nuclear bombs would work, and they were deployed against an enemy just a few short weeks later. … More ON THIS DAY: First Nuclear Explosion Called Trinity

ON THIS DAY: First Nuclear Explosion Called Trinity

ON THIS DAY: America Declares Independence From Monarchal Rule

July 4, 2022

July 4 is the day we celebrate the founding of the United States, and for good reason. … More ON THIS DAY: America Declares Independence From Monarchal Rule

ON THIS DAY: America Declares Independence From Monarchal Rule

ON THIS DAY: Picketts’ Charge

July 3, 2022

Pickett’s Charge on July 3, 1863, was the high water mark for the Confederacy, and marked the beginning of the end for the American Civil War. … More ON THIS DAY: Picketts’ Charge

ON THIS DAY: Picketts’ Charge

ON THIS DAY: Juneteenth

June 20, 2022

Celebrating the end of slavery in the United States … More ON THIS DAY: Juneteenth

ON THIS DAY: Juneteenth

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