Senator John Heinz (R-PA) Killed in Plane Crash
On 4th April, 1991, Heinz flew to Philadelphia to conduct the first in a series of investigative hearings to examine the telemarketing of medical equipment to Medicare …
Politics
C Wright Mills Publishes his Book “The Power Elite”
The Power Elite is a 1956 book by sociologist C. Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society …
John Rawlings Rees, Deputy Director of the Tavistock Institute for Medical Psychology, Speaks of Infiltration and Subversion of Education, Religion, Law, and Medicine
Printed in MENTAL HEALTH, vol. 1, no. 4, October 1940, one finds a speech by John Rawlings Rees (deputy director of the Tavistock Institute for …
FDR announces “court-packing” plan
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately …
Mayor of Oakland Arrested in Sacramento for Failing to Wear a Mask During Spanish Flu
(via Smithsonian Magazine) Starting in 1918, as the Bay Area suffered through the flu pandemic, Californians crafted masks of gauze, an open-weave fabric perhaps hard-pressed …
1906 NY Gubernatorial Race:
The 1906 New York gubernatorial race was one for the ages: The current president stepping in for a future presidential candidate, a propaganda war, and …
Booker T. Washington: Address to the Atlanta Exposition
Booker T. Washington’s 1895 Address to the Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition is one of the most famous speeches in American history. The goal …
1860 United States Presidential Election
The two frontrunners for the Republican presidential nomination were Lincoln and New York Senator William Seward. After three votes, Lincoln was nominated with Hannibal Hamlin as his …
Percy Bysshe Shelley Publishes ‘Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things’
The acquisition of a unique copy of Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things is a momentous event for scholars and readers of Percy Bysshe Shelley, …
The ‘Plumb-pudding in danger’, or, ‘State Epicures taking un Petit Souper’ Cartoon
Hailed by British cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson as “the greatest political cartoon ever”, James Gillray’s The Plumb-pudding in Danger is typical of the Georgian-era caricaturist’s biting satire. Drawn …