Roosevelt’s New Deal and the Supreme Court President Roosevelt was outraged when the Supreme Court invalidated two of the most important New Deal initiatives – the National Industrial Recovery Act
In the years leading up to World War II, Churchill spoke openly of the threat to European liberty posed by Nazism and other emerging authoritarian governments. A Threat to European
World War II created such a need for manpower, that it drew African American men and women into the national effort for victory. As the war came to an end, they
If you are old enough, say thirty or older, you remember where you were and what you were doing when you heard. You remember who told you. You recall the
Many years ago, as I browsed the book section of the North Carolina Museum of History’s gift shop, I stumbled upon “Divided Allegiances: Bertie County in the Civil War” by
Two of the largest landslides in American presidential elections occurred just sixteen years apart. President Lyndon Johnson, the liberal architect of the “Great Society,” trounced conservative icon Barry Goldwater of
John Copeland and Lewis Leary were the last two men to join John Brown’s small band gathering on a Kentucky farm in October 1859. Both free Blacks, they arrived just
This June 25 marks the 80th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 8802, prohibiting discrimination in the defense industry. Considered from three critical perspectives, this small but important
In 1982, country music legend Merle Haggard performed for President Ronald Reagan, First Lady Nancy Reagan, and their guests at the Sierra Grande Ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains three
Early one school year, I asked my Advanced Placement U.S. History students what questions they hoped to have answered in the course. One thoughtful student said she wanted to understand
