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Horrible Statements
on May 31, 2018
On May 22, 1917, Woodrow Wilson sent a letter to the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Representative Edwin Y. Webb, to drum up support for a press censorship amendment to the Espionage Act – which was essentially designed to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yesterday, Kanye West went on what seemed like a day-long meltdown about his love for Donald Trump. Although it’s perfectly fine to believe what you want to believe, in this particular case, it seems to fly in the face of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
State of the Union
on January 30, 2018
Chapter: 2018 - January
Characters: Donald Trump, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington, Lyndon B Johnson, Thomas Jefferson, Woodrow Wilson
Location: House Chamber
Dust Bowl Boat Ride
on October 26, 2017
Chapter: 2017 - October
Characters: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Republican, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Location: Hooverville
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
Chapter: 2017 - October
Characters: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Location: Hooverville
“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
Chapter: 2017 - October
Characters: Calvin Coolidge, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, Warren G Harding, Woodrow Wilson
Location: Hooverville
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
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…
