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Capt. Silas Soule

On June 22, demonstrators who attempted to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson located in Lafayette Square near the White House were forcibly removed by police in riot gear. Jackson rose to political prominence on the laurels of his exploits as an Army officer during the War of 1812 and Battle of New Orleans, which he used as an effective platform for a political career culminating in a successful run in 1828 as a Democratic candidate for president.  In addition to the military campaigns against the British... Читать дальше...

Was Roy Cohn evil?  There seems to be a consensus that he was.   

That is at least what we learn from two recent films on New York City’s most notorious lawyer: Matt Tyrnauer’s 2019 documentary, “Where’s My Roy Cohn?,” and Ivy Meeropol’s “Bully. Coward. Victim.  The Story of Roy Cohn,” just released last month on HBO.

A fixture of the New York political and social scene until his death from AIDS in 1986, Cohn made himself indispensable to some of the biggest movers and shakers of the late 20th century... Читать дальше...

Oil Well Set Fire during Iraqi Retreat, Kuwait 1991

In the summer of 1990, Iraq was on the verge of bankruptcy and already in arrears on payments to several international creditors. It responded to its predicament by invading its southern neighbor, Kuwait. Thus started a long international crisis. It ended only after the onset of a US-led military campaign in mid-January 1991 to liberate Kuwait. 

The 1991 Gulf War brought an ignominious defeat to Iraq which diminished its regional... Читать дальше...

Dixie Arrow after being torpedoed off Cape Hatteras, March 1942

Tom Hanks's “Greyhound,” the historically accurate film about a World War Two convoy under attack from German U-boats, depicts the harrowing early years of the war when merchant shipping faced near-constant threat of attack. The attacks took place in the mid-North Atlantic where, until later years of the war, air coverage could not protect the ships. But in the very first months of the war, the U-boats converged on shipping... Читать дальше...

Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a Berlin Factory, March 1942. 

Seventy-five years ago, the United States detonated the first atomic bomb in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Given the enormity of that event, and the ensuing swift conclusion of World War II, it would be reasonable to expect a substantial physical manifestation of the place’s importance. A park, perhaps, or a museum. 

Alexander Meiklejohn, Time, 1928

Harper’s Magazine recently published an open letter defending public inquiry and debate against “severe retribution [for] perceived transgressions of speech and thought.” The letter refers to “an intolerant climate that has set in on all sides,” and while it mentions Donald Trump and authoritarian regimes its real target seems to be an increasingly illiberal segment of the American Left.

Critics have cried foul. Some reactions have exhibited... Читать дальше...

In the spring of 1861, the United States was on the verge of becoming a failed state. All that was needed was Lincoln’s recognition of the existence of the Confederacy. In writing a history of how a strategically placed minority of slaveholders maneuvered eleven states out of the Union and created the short-lived Confederate States of America, I gave little thought to the possibility that my America might soon find itself on the brink of a comparable crisis of governance and national purpose. 

Many historians and most lay people still believe the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the Pacific War.

The Mississippi flag, which has now seen its inglorious end, first flew its Confederate design in 1894, a busy time in the south for mythmaking about white supremacy.  

Textile maker Airtex Group is betting thousands that coverings will be a long-term opportunity.

The Chinese Communist coronavirus isn’t the only epidemic in the land. 

Police Minister Bheki Cele says that, although he won't set a time frame, a "positive outcome is coming" with respect to the investigation into the killing of South African football star Senzo Meyiwa.

In a Sunday interview with CNN, Deborah Birx—the physician charged with overseeing the White House’s coronavirus response—warned that the United States had entered a “new phase” of the pandemic, per The Washington Post, in reference to the climbing infection and death rates across the country.

Wealthy countries have already locked up more than a billion doses of coronavirus vaccines, raising worries that the rest of the world will be at ...

HBO gifted Howard University $1 million for the creation of an entertainment fellowship.

The Cardinals are the second MLB team dealing with an outbreak in a season that's barely a week old

Rising Canadian rapper TwoTiime unleashes his latest track.
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4. Trump Forecasts His Own Fraud  The New York Times
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