In 1956, The Daily Mirror reported on the Suez Canal crisis, a dramatic series of events that ignited the tinder box that was the Middle East in the late 1950s. Israel invaded Egypt in response to President Gamal Abdel Nasser's nationalization of the strategically critical Suez Canal. Although...
“Oklahoma has long had an identity crisis,” said William J. Savage Jr., a University of Oklahoma history professor, noting the state’s continued sensitivity about its portrayal in “The Grapes of Wrath.” “We internalized that and become very defensive about it,” Savage said. “Now Okla...