The United States planned for the military occupation of Cuba in 1962 with a temporary American military governor in charge, according to newly declassified documents.
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August 22, 2017 12:31 PM
Kevin Boylan: 'Taking their cue from the Vietnam revisionists, Iraq war optimists argued that just as Americans thought we were losing in Vietnam when in fact we were winning, so too were we winning in Iraq despite apparent evidence to the contrary. The problem, the optimists argued, was that — just as during the Vietnam War — naysaying pundits and politicians were not merely undermining popular support for the war, but giving our enemies hope that they could win by waiting for the American people to lose their will to continue the fight. This kind of talk alarmed me because it discouraged a frank reassessment of our failing strategy in Iraq, which was producing that weekly procession of maimed veterans. And I also knew that the historical premises on which it was based were deeply flawed. America did not experience a “lost victory” in Vietnam; in fact, victory was likely out of reach from the beginning.'
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July 30, 2017 6:22 AM
A 6 minute documentary on McCarthyism and the Red Scare.
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April 13, 2017 7:49 AM
Various clips of Chomsky on his own activism and the Vietnam War extracted from "Vietnam War Remembered" (2005).
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March 29, 2017 4:30 AM
US Presidential elections made simple.
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Dr. Friedman (born July 15, 1912), a 1976 Nobel Prize winner for excellence in economics. Via Kent College History
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February 5, 2017 5:02 PM
'The Great Depression that followed was the result of bungling by the Federal Reserve System.' Milton Friedman on the causes of the Depression.
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The Traveling Salesman Problem is a website developed by William Cook at the University of Waterloo. The site features interactive map
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Fireside Chat 1 On the Banking Crisis (March 12,1933) Given by Franklin Delano Roosevelt Via Kent College History
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November 16, 2016 6:36 PM
The first 'Fireside Chat' given by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the Banking Crisis (March 12,1933).
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November 4, 2016 8:19 AM
Clip from the film The Red Menace (1949).
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Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong. Via Kent College History, Mike Busarello's Digital Storybooks
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October 23, 2016 2:41 AM
The rendition of events that the Kennedy administration fed to a credulous press; the history that the participants in Washington promulgated in their memoirs, and the story that has insinuated itself into the national memory were misleading or erroneous.
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"As you already know, America FOUGHT, America WON! her independence on July 4, 1776 but what do you know about September 9, 1776? Via Sharla Shults
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September 8, 2016 1:51 PM
Depictions of Native Americans in the movies.
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Phyllis Schlafly, a leading US conservative and outspoken opponent of feminism and abortion, has died at the age of 92. Via Kent College History
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September 6, 2016 11:34 AM
'Phyllis Schlafly, a leading figure in the US conservative movement, has died at her home in Missouri, aged 92. Mrs Schlafly was an outspoken opponent of feminism and abortion and helped Republicans block the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.' |
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New Jersey Vietnam Veterans discuss their experiences returning home after military service. Via Kent College History
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August 23, 2017 5:47 AM
Vietnam veterans recall their experiences on returning home.
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This lesson will focus on the views of the founders as expressed in primary documents from their own time and in their own words. Students will see that many of the major founders opposed slavery as contrary to the principles of the American Revolution.
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Learn about Civil War nurses with this incredible primary sources.
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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
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Why did a president who understood the risks nevertheless rush into an unwinnable war? Via Kent College History
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February 25, 2017 10:28 AM
LBJ and Vietnam: Mark K. Updegrove, director of the LBJ Presidential Library, is the author of “Indomitable Will: LBJ in the Presidency.”
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January 17, 2017 8:34 AM
'In January 1967, when the First and 25th Infantry Divisions of the United States Army began Operation Cedar Falls, their all-out offensive against the Communist strongholds of the “Iron Triangle” northwest of Saigon, Vo Thi Mo, 20, was ready.'
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December 21, 2016 3:51 PM
Noam Chomsky gives a concise run-down of the foreign policy of US Presidents from Eisenhower to Bush II.
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Elections are over! Whether the results brought about smiles or tears really does not matter at this point. In any kind of competition, one person wins. Another loses. This is the matter of fact way of looking at it only from an individual perspective. What truly matters here is our nation. My America, YOUR America, Our America! A monumental, pivotal point in American history has led us to a new beginning because we live in a country that allows the democratic voting process. Let us stand together as a united nation remaining always thankful for the privileges living in America has to offer...the right to vote being just one! Via Sharla Shults
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October 25, 2016 6:16 PM
After the Bay of Pigs disaster President Kennedy created a committee charged with overthrowing Castro's government. At a meeting of this committee at the White House on 4th November 1961, it was decided to call this covert action program for sabotage and subversion against Cuba, Operation Mongoose.
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October 7, 2016 6:29 AM
'The Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, also known as the Hart-Celler Act, abolished an earlier quota system based on national origin and established a new immigration policy based on reuniting immigrant families and attracting skilled labor to the United States.'
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Labor leader and farm worker advocate Cesar Chavez devoted his life to improving the treatment of workers. Learn more at Biography.com. Via Kent College History
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September 8, 2016 1:52 PM
A biography page on the Hispanic American activist, Cesar Chavez.
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"Today's History Lesson...Uncle Sam Via Sharla Shults
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'55 years-ago today, at 11:50 a.m., October 16, 1962, the National Security Council's Executive Committee (ExCom) began deliberating over responses to the Soviet missile deployments.'
'55 years-ago today, at 11:50 a.m., October 16, 1962, the National Security Council's Executive Committee (ExCom) began deliberating over responses to the Soviet missile deployments.'