History

Remembering the Truth About Veterans Day 0
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- November 11, 2020
At 11:00 on the morning of November 11, 1918, the Great War, which some at the time innocently called “The War to End All Wars,” came to an end. The guns fell silent, the murderous slaughter of soldiers and civilians ceased, and the survivors in the trenches and on the battlefields realized they would live
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1824: The Strangest Presidential Election Yet 0
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- November 5, 2020
The Era of Good Feelings. Not exactly the best descriptor for our own times is it? Spanning from the mid-1810s through the end of President James Monroe’s second term in 1824, the Era of Good Feelings was a time in which the Democratic-Republican Party enjoyed practically unopposed control of the United States following the Federalist Party’s
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Sam Adams Speaks to Voter ID and Other Election Day Matters 0
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- November 3, 2020
It’s time to head to the polls where the lines will be likely be long, but the election day will be short, to paraphrase a common saying! Our minds, as we stand in line, will likely drift to various poll numbers, final campaign speeches from the candidates, or daydreams of what life will be like
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What Do Long Voting Lines Actually Mean?0
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- November 2, 2020
Only a few days remain until the Nov. 3 election, and – as in many years prior – the old chestnut of “long lines” at the polling places has appeared again right on schedule. The difference this time is that many are calling any line a sign of organized “voter suppression” or the new buzzword,
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A Biden Court-Packing Plan Could Be Worse Than FDR’s 0
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- October 30, 2020
Still fighting off the tail-end of the Great Depression, Americans gave President Franklin Delano Roosevelt a landslide victory over Republican challenger Alf Landon in 1936. Roosevelt, keen to see his New Deal legislation brought to fruition, was frustrated again and again by the Supreme Court. The “Four Horsemen” – the press’s name for conservative justices
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Why Americans Are So Enamored With Election Polls 0
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- October 29, 2020
The Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned on Twitter and elsewhere the other day that if preelection polls in this year’s presidential race are embarrassingly wrong again, “then the polling industry is done.” It was quite the forecast. While it is possible the polls will misfire, it’s exceedingly unlikely that such failure would cause the opinion
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