On October 31, while children of all ages don costumes and pursue candy, Nevadans will hold four parades around the state to commemorate their sesquicentennial.
October, 2014
A Wise Man of Music
Recently, the Country Music Hall of Fame held its “Medallion Ceremony,” an evening set aside to honor its annual inductees.
October 29, 1929: Wealth, Poverty, and the End of an Era
Monday, October 28, 1929 was opening night for New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Four thousand glittering attendees thronged to the elegant building on foot or in one of a thousand limousines to see Puccini’s Manon Lescaut…
The Original West African Epidemic
Modern concern about the spread of virulent diseases like Ebola is nothing new. People of every era understood that diseases could spread from place to place, even though how they spread was poorly understood.
Why We Shouldn’t Be Celebrating 100 Years of Refrigerators
A number of people in the media have been discussing the so-called “centennial” of the refrigerator. None of them have explained why.
The Quest for Quebec
Over the course of the seventeenth century, the English and the French battled each other in upstate New York and Canada for control of the New World.
The Seduction of Two Innocents: Comic Book Readers and Policy Makers
In 1938, Superman sped into this galaxy from the planet Krypton to save humanity. He and his superhero friends oversaw the chaos of the late 1940s, as America first fought WWII then struggled to adjust to demobilization…
Protecting the President: How the Secret Service Got the Job
Recent controversies have raised questions about the Secret Service’s professionalism and ability to protect the President. This, in turn, raises another question: what is a “secret” service doing in the high-profile job of protecting the President?
Women In Congress: The Anita Hill Generation
In the fall of 1991, Law Professor Anita Hill testified before the then-all-male Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Louisiana Purchase
On October 20, 1803, the Senate approved a treaty between the United States and the French Republic. This treaty was no small affair.