Field Memoranda
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.” – Georg Hegel
Memorandum: Was Nixon’s Reelection Ted Kennedy’s Fault?
Ted Kennedy Had a Chance to Hold Nixon Accountable. Why Didn't He?Senator George McGovern and his staff were desperate as the Democrats slogged into the final weeks of his 1972 campaign against President Richard Nixon. The Democratic Party was broke, dispirited and...
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'A fearsome decision': Abigail Adams had her children inoculated against smallpoxThe future first lady feared inoculation, but she feared smallpox more. It was 1776, and Abigail Adams had decided that she and her four children would seek protection from a deadly...
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Opinion | Remember the Chosin Few this ThanksgivingSeventy Thanksgivings ago, Pfc. Warren Wiedhahn was 21, far from home and freezing. During a winter of record cold, nighttime temperatures were more than 30 degrees below zero in the North Korean mountains.
The story of the Gettysburg Address-and what it can teach us today
The story of the Gettysburg Address-and what it can teach us today He arrived in the small Pennsylvania town on November 18, 1863, a day before he was to give one of his few national addresses. He wasn't alone. Gettysburg's population at the time was less than 3,000,...
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John McCain demonstrates a civility hard to believe ever existed...
Today in History
- Auto-factory architect Albert Kahn dies
- Superpowers agree to reduce nuclear arsenals
- NAFTA signed into law
- Mary Queen of Scots born
- John Lennon shot
- The United States declares war on Japan
- President Nixon announces Vietnam War is ending
- Bears beat Redskins 73-0 in NFL Championship game
- Jeannette Rankin casts sole vote against WWII
- Humorist James Thurber is born