Army-McCarthy Hearings: Gentelmen’s Agreement Army-McCarthy Hearings: Gentelmen’s Agreement
With his farcical accusations against the Secretary of the Army, Tailgunner Joe meets his Waterloo.
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Carey McWilliams
Edison’s Phonograph Edison’s Phonograph
The quiet breakfast could end up being a thing of the past if the rumors about Edison inventing a phonograph are true.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Nation
Custer: One of the Indian Outbreaks Custer: One of the Indian Outbreaks
Little Bighorn could end up being as disastrous for the Indians as it was for General Custer.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors
Synder-Gray: Fights and Flights in the Newspapers Synder-Gray: Fights and Flights in the Newspapers
Ruth Elder's oversea hop is acclaimed by the daily press as a triumph, although she fell more than six hundred miles short of her destination, and seems from the headlines to h...
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Silas Bent
The Panic of 1873 The Panic of 1873
On Wall Street, the Panic of 1873 was more like brute terror.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors
VJ Day: Occupying Japan VJ Day: Occupying Japan
Surrender hasn't stopped Japan from resisting.
Apr 22, 2009 / The Editors
Sputnik: Sattelite Hysteria and Moonstruck USA Sputnik: Sattelite Hysteria and Moonstruck USA
A little Russian satellite beeping in space causes mass hysteria on the ground.
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / Harlow Shapley
VE Day: Address to the German People VE Day: Address to the German People
The war in Europe is over, but while the Allies are victorious, the evil that the Nazis represented remains to be eradicated.
Apr 22, 2009 / Thomas Mann
The Rosenberg Case The Rosenberg Case
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg get the death penalty for a crime that no one seems sure they committed.
Apr 22, 2009 / Feature / The Nation
Farewell to FDR Farewell to FDR
On April 12, 1945, America mourns its greatest president since Lincoln.
Apr 22, 2009 / I.F. Stone