The year was 1912, and Roosevelt was running for president, despite having stepped aside for William Howard Taft in 1908. No longer the Republican nominee, Roosevelt ran on the "Bull Moose" ticket. While campaigning in Milwaukee, he was shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank while en route to ...
The First Woman of Color to Run For US Vice PresidentJuly 25, 2024 Before Kamala Harris, there was Charlotta Bass. Historian Sonia Grant explores the overlooked life of a journalist and civil rights activist who became a target of both the FBI and Ku Klux Klan – and who, in 1952, becam...
The movie also showcases notable performances by Anthony Hopkins, portraying former President John Quincy Adams, and Matthew McConaughey as the idealistic lawyer Roger Sherman Baldwin. Garnering multiple award nominations, Amistad weaves together threads of law, freedom, and humanity in an unforgettab...
WARM UP Objective: To identify key developments on the home front during WWII. Journal: Most people during WWII accepted the practice of rationing. What. World War II had a huge impact on the United States Rationing, “Rosie the Riveter”, and the Tuskegee Airmen AMERICA DURING THE WAR....
By Roger Daniels. After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, claiming a never documented "military necessity," ordered the removal and incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II solely because of their ancestry. As Roger Daniels movingly describes, alm...
-Diseases during the Revolution "So Help Me God": What is the Purpose of an Oath? "Squanto ... a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation"-Pilgrim Governor William Bradford "THE BANK WAR" & President Jackson vs. Nicholas Biddle "The Captain's Daughter"; "I...
American: An Odyssey to 1947: Regia di Danny Wu. Con Orson Welles, Catherine L. Benamou, Gray Brechin, Simon Callow. In the early 1930s, Orson Welles ascends to unprecedented stardom while President Franklin Delano Roosevelt navigates a nation in crisis.
Prior to, and during WWII, President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a working relationship between loyal political friends and hated enemies that nearly defies comprehension. \"American Warlords\" explores these relationships and the three men who helped FDR pull off this high-wire balancing act....
is the story of University of Washington student, Gordon Hirabayashi who, during the Japanese Internment of WWII, refused to follow evacuation orders as an exercise of his civil rights. Convicted and placed into a federal prison, it took 45 years for his conviction to be overturned. Sakhrani,...
Women came into the workforces in greater numbers than ever before during WWII. With vacancies left by deployed men and new positions created by war production, posters like this iconic “We Can Do It!” urged women to support the war effort by going to work in America’s factories. Poster...