1920s America, today's political climate exhibit dark parallels
Today's administration policies are dark, strongly resembling how Americans felt during a pivotal decade 100 years ago, when ...
Donald Trump Is What Some Historians Call a ‘Transformative President’
Whatever one feels about Trump, some historians say Presidencies like his and Roosevelt's can signal a new era.
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History issues a warning: Historian sounds alarm on a scandal-mongering 1920s FBI director
After winning the 2024 election, President Donald Trump said on Nov. 30 that his new FBI director would be Kash Patel, a ...
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The dark parallels between 1920s America and today’s political climate
They entered the 1920s with a growing sense of paranoia ... based on the fear of something that former President Theodore Roosevelt and others called “race suicide.” The law introduced rigid ...
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Nogales leader in 1917 was part of women’s suffrage movement
In 1917, when Theodora Sprecher Marsh showed up at House of Representatives as the representative from Santa Cruz County, she ...
The parallels between Kash Patel and William J. Burns, a scandal-mongering 1920s FBI director — an FBI historian explains
Some observers have compared Patel to J. Edgar Hoover, the domineering FBI director between 1924 and 1972 who was renowned for FBI abuses. In 1956, Hoover created COINTELPRO, an illegal ...
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Hazing runs deep in Greek Life. Southern student's death is a painful reminder it's hard to stop.
Caleb Wilson's tragic death has spurred a familiar conversation across Louisiana and the U.S.: How can deadly hazing rituals ...
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Highs and lows of Trump’s fentanyl war
During the Prohibition era (1920-33), when alcohol was banned in the United States, the American Mafia, along with other ...