January 25, 1915: Alexander Graham Bell, in New York, Speaks on the Telephone With Thomas Watson, in San Francisco January 25, 1915: Alexander Graham Bell, in New York, Speaks on the Telephone With Thomas Watson, in San Francisco
A profile of Bell in The Nation that year reported that the Scot spoke with a "rattling burr that adds piquancy to whatever he says."
Jan 25, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 24, 1965: Winston Churchill Dies January 24, 1965: Winston Churchill Dies
Not the Winston Churchill who once served on The Nation's editorial board.
Jan 24, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 23, 1973: Nixon Announces a Peace Agreement to End the Vietnam War January 23, 1973: Nixon Announces a Peace Agreement to End the Vietnam War
The Nation had an old China hand, blacklisted in the McCarthy era, reflect on the American surrender in Vietnam.
Jan 23, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 22, 1973: In ‘Roe v. Wade,’ the Supreme Court Legalizes Abortion in All Fifty States January 22, 1973: In ‘Roe v. Wade,’ the Supreme Court Legalizes Abortion in All Fifty States
After the Supreme Court legalized abortion on this day in 1973, The Nation published an editorial that seems curiously averse to discussion of the actual debate.
Jan 22, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 21, 1924: Vladimir Lenin Dies January 21, 1924: Vladimir Lenin Dies
The Nation greeted the opening act of the Russian Revolution, in March 1917, with an enthusiasm bordering on glee. But how did it eulogize Lenin when seven years later, with actual...
Jan 21, 2015 / The Almanac / The Almanac and Richard Kreitner
January 20, 1937: FDR Is Inaugurated for the Second Time January 20, 1937: FDR Is Inaugurated for the Second Time
“A thin but pleasant sort of rhetoric” suffused FDR’s second inaugural address, The Nation thought.
Jan 20, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 19, 1809: Edgar Allen Poe Is Born January 19, 1809: Edgar Allen Poe Is Born
Why does Europe so love Poe? The Nation’s Simeon Strunsky asked on the writer’s 100th birthday. Because in him “she has caught the true voice of the young world b...
Jan 19, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 18, 1919: The Peace Conference Convenes at Paris January 18, 1919: The Peace Conference Convenes at Paris
The Nation’s editor reports from the conference, where he laments the absence of women, workers and communists.
Jan 18, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower Warns of the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ in His Farewell Address January 17, 1961: President Eisenhower Warns of the ‘Military-Industrial Complex’ in His Farewell Address
When Dwight D. Eisenhower left office in January 1961 he warned against the growing menace to democracy of “the military-industrial complex,” to which The Nation devote...
Jan 17, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac
January 16, 1919: The 18th Amendment Is Ratified, Prohibition of Alcohol Becomes Law January 16, 1919: The 18th Amendment Is Ratified, Prohibition of Alcohol Becomes Law
The Nation’s editor and publisher Oswald Garrison Villard, whatever his radicalism on other issues, was a lifelong teetotaler, influenced by a childhood warning by his mother...
Jan 16, 2015 / The Almanac / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac