Download PDF version “I ought to go upright and vital and speak the rude truth in all ways.” – Emerson, Self-Reliance It was two days ago, May 25th, that we celebrated Ralph Waldo Emerson’s birth. Born in 1803...
Download PDF version Sixty years ago today, April 17, 1961, a CIA-operated group of Cuban exiles sought to overthrow the communist regime of Fidel Castro in what is known as the Bay of Pigs invasion. The planning for this overthrow...
Download PDF version After more than fifty years, John F. Kennedy’s assassination continues to impact television programming. In its time, the devastating campaign stop in Dallas, Texas, forever changed Americans’ relationship with televised news. Since then, countless small-screen dramatizations, documentaries,...
Download PDF version As a nation, the United States has witnessed two critical periods in its history when the unity and coexistence of its people were at stake. The first took place just after the United States became a country....
Download PDF version If this were a script for the latest iteration of that beloved genre of election-themed films, you may think that it would best be classified under a specific sub-category, that of dystopian election films, with titles like...
Download PDF version In the mid-1960s, a group of teenage girls released a spate of highly emotional, vividly realized songs that consistently placed high on pop charts both in the United States and the United Kingdom. The group, called the...
We’re glad to share the call for papers for the issue 4 of the journal USAbroad Gender and Empowerment in American History and Politics. The issue seeks to reflect on how gender interacted and still interacts with political discourse and...
