history
Past politicians, legislation and political movements have changed the course of history in ways both big and small. Welcome to our blast to the past.
Säuberung
It was cold still for being this late in spring. Germany was in the middle of political restructuring. Earlier in the year, Adolf Hitler was sworn in as the Chancellor of all Germany. The first week in May brought us the melting of snow, but only just. People walked briskly down the streets of East Berlin. They bundled up as the wind roared its last call before the fall of night. Everyone rushed down the streets to get home before the last of the warming sun retired for the evening.
By Kitty Fermengs5 years ago in The Swamp
How A Republic Dies: 11 Powerful Lessons From History That Will Open Up Your Eyes
“A Republic, if you can keep it.” — Benjamin Franklin A small group of senators and other magistrates is holed up in the Capitol. Angry mobs are causing carnage outside, clamoring to get in. After several rounds of political violence, deadlock, and even death, things have gotten this far. The pressure is on, the stakes are high.
By Peter Burns5 years ago in The Swamp
The Jurors
ON THE WAY from Staines to Windsor the road, the A308, runs between the Thames on the right and the fields of Runnymede on the left. In those fields are some big chairs clearly visible from the road. Why were they there? A place for a picnic but if so why? There were no trees for shade. Not there was any on this December day. No hedge lines to shelter from the wind. There they were, in the middle of a field.
By Alan Russell5 years ago in The Swamp
Gandhi - The Mahatma
7 June 1893. It was a cold night. A man sat shivering on the Pietermaritzburg train platform. He was just thrown out of the first-class compartment of the departed train, even though he had the first-class ticket. Reason? He was a man of color. This singular event would turn out to make the man question his beliefs and faith. It would make him rethink the hopeless hardships of Indians and people of color. It would lead to a spark in his mind, which would turn into a fire engulfing him and a whole nation into the principles of Ahimsa and Satyagraha. It would later turn him into a Mahatma.
By vaisrinivasan5 years ago in The Swamp
Where modern democracy started
“Given by our hand in the meadow that is called Runnymede, between Windsor and Staines, on the 15th day of June in the seventeenth year of our reign (ie 1215) (Extract from the closing paragraph of the English translation of the Magna Carta held at The British Library).
By Alan Russell5 years ago in The Swamp
Why does Harriet Tubman deserve to be on the $20 bill?
With newly installed President, Joe Biden, bringing new life to the mission of replacing the face of controversial 7th president, Andrew Jackson, with one of famed Civil War-era abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, I have heard this question more than once: "Why does Harriet Tubman deserve to be on the $20 bill?" Even seeing mention of it zip by on various social media platforms, not just news outlets or in casual conversation, here in the Southern USA.
By Vivian Brooks5 years ago in The Swamp
"Rendered Himself Obnoxious" Is Impeachable?
Written throughout the Constitution of the United States are checks and balances on power between the three branches of government. In theory, this balance of power ensures that the country will remain stable and resist the threat of losing the freedom and democracy that many Americans cherish. The power of impeachment is one such check.
By Nicole "ChaseThePen" Sanchez5 years ago in The Swamp
Liberals have a duty to save Trump loyalists from the brink of destruction
In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the New Deal. It would run until 1939 and encompassed a series of public works and relief programs specifically targeted at rebuilding the ravages of the Great Depression. Among its infamous changes was the foundation of the Social Security Administration, minimum wage laws, and it eventually spiraled out into things like Medicare and others. The New Deal saved a dying class of Americans who were quickly being left behind by the modern world. Many had grade-school educations; they were carpenters, tradesmen, and laborers. Without Roosevelt’s New Deal, they would have been economically extinct, relegated to a short-life of extreme poverty. It was Roosevelt’s New Deal that cemented the Democratic Party as the party of the working class. He lifted working people up, and what followed were the worker’s unions, manufacturing jobs and decent salaries that built the American middle class into a force to be reckoned with. Despite Roosevelt’s liberal stance on social issues, many socially conservative workers voted for him each of the four terms he ran. Not because they were social justice warriors, but because Roosevelt had saved their asses, and they knew it.
By Jeremy Gosnell5 years ago in The Swamp
