GENERATIONS
WHEN ASKED IF HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT HIS PLACE IN HISTORY WINSTON CHURCHILL REPLIED NO SINCE HE PROPOSED TO “WRITE IT MYSELF.” YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED IN HISTORY (TO PARAPHRASE TROTSKY) BUT HISTORY IS INTERESTED IN YOU. GENERATIONS ARE THE THROUGH-LINE. IT’S YOUR HISTORY. HELP WRITE IT.
ROBERTO DURAN “NO MAS!” 1989
The process led to a downwardly-spiraling media circus. By the end of the 1960s it the protestors and those watching were like two exhausted heavyweights, leaden-legged, bloodied, leaning on each other, until each like Roberto Duran threw up their hands “No Mas!” This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the […]
ON THE BEACH 1959
The closing scene from the movie “On the Beach.” This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders.
BUDDHIST MONK BURNS HIMSELF IN PROTEST
This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) These facts are disturbing to draft age students, and over time as the ambiguities and difficult moral choices that fighting a foreign war against an arbitrarily divided nation entailed came to light, when we were […]
THE VIETNAM MORATORIUM
These facts are disturbing to draft age students, and over time as the ambiguities and difficult moral choices that a fighting a foreign war against an arbitrarily divided nation entailed came to light, when we were confronted with images of the self-immolating Buddhist monks, the revelations of My Lai, the protests swelled. By 1969 over […]
MY LAI 1968
These facts are disturbing to draft age students, and over time as the ambiguities and difficult moral choices that a fighting a foreign war against an arbitrarily divided nation entailed came to light, when we were confronted with images of the self-immolating Buddhist monks, the revelations of My Lai, the protests swelled. By 1969 over […]
WATTS RIOTS 1965
“The next Selma procession, on March 21, was celebratory—thousands of singing marchers, ranks of glamorous celebrities in the fore, marching all the way through to Montgomery. That night one of the white marchers, a Detroit mother of five named Viola Liuzzo was shot to death.” “As they were driving along Route 80, a car tried […]
ROSA PARKS 1955
By the summer of 1963, between my Freshman and Sophomore years, I was absorbed reading the life of Gandhi. As I was reading there was nothing about me that was radical. In another era I might simply have read it and internally cataloged it as history – like Tippecanoe and Tyler too – and put […]
HE MAY BE A COMMUNIST
It seems clear in retrospect that Truman’s internal policy was motivated at least as much by politics as by real concern. In fact he writes to Pennsylvania Governor George Earle, “People are very much wrought up about the Communist ‘bugaboo’ but I am of the opinion that the country is perfectly safe so far as […]
THE HOLLYWOOD TEN
In 1947 the HUAC begin there infamous probe into Hollywood, a probe made possible by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI. “Hoover was more than willing to assist with the committee’s investigations, which was fortunate, since no congressional committee had the resources available to the FBI… The committee investigated the film industry three times, in […]
JAPAN SURRENDERS 1945
After Japan’s surrender in August 1945 the Army was once again demobilized and its size is reduced to 554,000 troops. By the war’s end, an estimated 60 million people have died. Russia loses over 14% of her population, over 23 million people. Germany, including Austria, loses between 6,750,000 to 8,800,000, or between 8.0% to 10.5% […]
