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Dust Bowl Boat Ride

on October 26, 2017
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During the Harding administration, when Herbert Hoover had enormous power over policy while in the cabinet, he actually did propose that farmers plant cover crops to restore exhausted farmland back into grassy plains to prevent the kind of wind erosion[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

A Chicken in Every Pot

on October 25, 2017
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“A chicken in every pot” was a familiar expression by the time the election of 1928 came around, but it was with Herbert Hoover that the phrase was most associated, with the added phrase “and a car in every backyard,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Black Thursday

on October 24, 2017
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Today marks the anniversary of Black Thursday on October 24, 1929, when the stock market began to crash, concluding five days later on Black Tuesday, the end and biggest day of the fall. It’s debatable today whether the Wall Street[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

Hooverville

on October 23, 2017
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In an effort to paint Herbert Hoover solely responsible for what became known as the Great Depression, the Democratic party immediately went to work to brand the images of devastating poverty as “Hooverian.” The shanty towns became Hoovervilles, newspapers became[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…

The Fascist and the Furious

on August 15, 2017
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Just a reminder that our 10th president, John Tyler, although died right before he could actually serve, was voted into the Confederate House of Representatives. Woodrow Wilson was a young boy growing up in the Confederate south and carried white[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…