14 February marks the anniversary of the birth of James R. Hoffa in 1913. Hoffa was President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters from 1958 to 1971. Hoffa left school at 14 to work as …
Politics
Man with a Movie Camera
11 February marks the day that Sergei Eisenstein died in 1948. Eisenstein was a Soviet movie director and film theorist and is recognized world-wide as a pioneer in film making. At the Petrograd Institute of …
Alan Keyes – This week’s profile in Black History
Alan Keyes is a commentator and diplomat who mounted numerous campaigns for public office. A year before completing his doctoral studies, Keyes joined the United States Department of State as a protégé of Jeane Kirkpatrick. He …
What did the President know, and when did he know it?
It was on 7 February, 1973, that the US Senate voted 77 – 0 to approve Senate Resolution 60 and establish a select committee to investigate Watergate, with Senator Sam Ervin named chairman the next …
The Search for Truth
4 February marks the birthday of Dietrich Bonhoeffer in 1906. Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and anti-Nazi dissident. Bonhoeffer did his postgraduate work in New York City, where he attended Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist …
Campus Veteran
Phillip Thornton, custodial supervisor, brings new meaning to the term, ‘Campus Veteran’. Phillip is a veteran in numerous ways. First and foremost, he is a veteran in the traditional sense of the word. Drafted into …
Son of the Carpathians
26 January marks the birthday of Nicolae Ceausescu, whose career in Romanian politics lasted more than 40 years. Born in Southwestern Romania in 1918, he would become an apprentice to a shoemaker at age 11 …
The Original ‘Big Mac’
26 January marks the birthday of Douglas MacArthur, 5 Star General of the Army. MacArthur was the grandson of a Milwaukee, Wisconsin Judge and the son of a Medal of Honor winner, who fought in …
Sing All About It
It was on 24 January, in 2014, that folk singer Pete Seeger, died. In the late 1930’s, Seeger got start by assisting Alan Lomax in archiving American folk songs for the Library of Congress. Seeger …
One Man Revolution
14 January marks that day that Ammon Hennacy died in 1970. Ammon Hennacy was an Irish-American, Christian Anarchist Pacifist activist. He was born into a Quaker family in Ohio, and attended the UW-Madison in 1914. …