Every fall should be a reminder of that far-off day on which the fate of the republic was decided, at least tentatively. I know it is for me. I never fail to recall the bloodshed and horror and hope. To do so this year may be more important than ever – for then, like now, the future appeared ...
On an April day in 1937, John D. Mallory, “demonstration chairman,” and John P. Depto, toastmaster of that yearĢƵ Mitchell Day celebration for coal miners in Brownsville, messaged mine workers’ president John L. Lewis.At the parade and later at the banquet highlighting the April 1 ...
The Constitution is housed, under glass for safekeeping, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The romantic and the realist might together say: wrong, it resides in the hearts and sinews of the people of the United States.The parchment on which the Constitution was first written is now ...