March 13, 1938: Anschluss March 13, 1938: Anschluss
The Nation watches in horror as Hitler takes his first step down "the road to world empire."
Mar 13, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 12, 2009: Bernard Madoff Pleads Guilty March 12, 2009: Bernard Madoff Pleads Guilty
"Madoffgate," Alexander Cockburn wrote, offers some surprising "instruction on how to get through life in one piece."
Mar 12, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 11, 2011: Massive Earthquake in Japan, Followed by a Tsunami and a Nuclear Disaster March 11, 2011: Massive Earthquake in Japan, Followed by a Tsunami and a Nuclear Disaster
Two-thirds of those catastrophes had been foreseen in a 1995 article in The Nation.
Mar 11, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 10, 1957: Osama bin Laden Is Born March 10, 1957: Osama bin Laden Is Born
In The Nation in 1998, Robert Fisk recalled his interviews with "an isolated, almost lonely figure."
Mar 10, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 9, 1933: FDR Signs the Emergency Banking Act, Launching the New Deal March 9, 1933: FDR Signs the Emergency Banking Act, Launching the New Deal
The new president, The Nation editorialized, “has so far swept everything before him with the strength and velocity of a March wind.”
Mar 9, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria March 8, 1963: The Ba’ath Party Seizes Power in Syria
“They must learn to avoid the temptation of crushing the voices of criticism,” a writer in The Nation observed.
Mar 8, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 7, 1965: ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma, Alabama March 7, 1965: ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Selma, Alabama
A writer in California describes what it was like to watch the attack on the voting-rights marchers on television.
Mar 7, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 6, 1986: Georgia O’Keeffe Dies March 6, 1986: Georgia O’Keeffe Dies
"Georgia O’Keeffe has never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another," wrote a Nation journalist in 1927.
Mar 6, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg Is Born March 5, 1871: Rosa Luxemburg Is Born
“No revolutionary as independent-minded as she,” Vivian Gornick once wrote in The Nation, “could fail, come the revolution, to be denounced as a counterrevolution...
Mar 5, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
March 4, 1933: Frances Perkins Becomes the First Woman in the US Cabinet March 4, 1933: Frances Perkins Becomes the First Woman in the US Cabinet
“An extraordinarily able woman of proved ability,” The Nation’s former editor, a veteran suffragist, cheered.
Mar 4, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac