It has been 58 years since US Senator Joe McCarthy died on 2 May, 1957. He was 48 years old and serving his second term in the US Senate at the time. Senator McCarthy began …
Politics
The Month of May Begins
The 1st of May, or “May Day” and sometimes called “International Workers Day,” has the unusual distinction of being a holiday that was born in the United States, but rarely receiving any official recognition here …
Bonus Track
Today is the last day of April, and thus the day of “Poetry Month,” so we bring you this final entry. Take a moment to listen to Gil Scott Heron’s, “The Revolution will not be …
Words of Wonder
April is Poetry Month, so please check back each week in this space where we will bring you poetry to soothe your busy thoughts. We open Poetry Month with this appropriate quote from President Kennedy “When …
A Man is Silenced, but not the Message…
It was on this day, 4 April , in 1968, that Martin Luther King Jr., was struck down by an assassin’s bullet. He was visiting the city of Memphis, Tennessee in support of striking sanitation …
Si Se Puede
March marks the birthday of Cesar Chavez. This day is a State holiday in California, Colorado and Texas. In 1927, Mr. Chavez was born into a family of Mexican-American migrant workers. In 1962, he founded (along …
From Campus to Congress
On 20 March, 2015, Robert W. Kastenmeier died. A Wisconsin native, Kastenmeier was inducted into the United States Army in 1943, during his service he would visit Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after it had been destroyed …
This Week’s Women in History Profile: Jane Addams
Jane Addams (1860–1935) considered to be the “mother” of American social work, a founder of the NAACP, a champion of women’s suffrage, an antiwar crusader and winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Addams carved out …
Say it Now
There is currently a vigorous debate underway regarding the future of shared governance. It puts us in mind of the time when there was no shared governance on campus and students (among others) had to …
I am a Woman…Hear Me Roar…
On this day, 8 March, in 1926, memebers of the New york Fur and Leather Workers Union, many of them women, began a strike that would be met with police beatings and threats to life, …