Six on US History and Geography: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power; Drake

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"The town was founded by immigrants from Holland, and, until recently, almost everyone who lived there was Dutch."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/13/where-the-small-town-american-dream-lives-on

Richard Avedon and James Baldwin’s Joint Examination of American Identity both DeWitt Clinton HS grads

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The Writing of “Silent Spring”: Rachel Carson and the Culture-Shifting Courage to Speak Inconvenient Truth to Power

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February 1942. "Farm Security Administration Mercer G. Evans camp in Weslaco, Texas. Drake family playing for a Saturday night dance."

Shorpy Historic Picture Archive :: Swing Your Partner: 1942 high-resolution photo

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Richard Nixon: Statement Submitted to Republican National Convention Committee on Resolutions: Vietnam

"The present Administration's emissaries in Paris must be able to speak with the full force and authority of the United States. Nothing should be offered in the political arena that might undercut their hand.

But there is much that can and should be discussed.

The war must be ended.

It must be ended honorably, consistent with America's limited aims and with the long term requirements of peace in Asia.

We must seek a negotiated settlement. This will require patience."

Richard Nixon: Statement Submitted to Republican National Convention Committee on Resolutions:

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The debate over John Kelly and Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War’ is making us stupider

"The idea that “The Civil War” portrays abolitionists as the people whose rigidity was the problem is simply not supported by the text. The last thing we need in a moment when we appear to be governed in 140-character tweets is to encourage people to judge 14-second clips of longer works in isolation. The Foote quotation is immediately preceded by historian Barbara Fields’s clear, uncompromising argument that “if there was a single event that caused the war, it was the establishment of the United States in independence from Great Britain with slavery still a part of its heritage.” It is immediately followed by a quotation from the writer John Jay Chapman that says “there was never a moment in our history when slavery was not a sleeping serpent.” A few minutes later, the narration tells us, “Most Southerners refused to acknowledge even the possibility of changing their way of life.”

Opinion | The debate over John Kelly and Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War’ is making us stupider

Opinion | The debate over John Kelly and Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War’ is ... Alyssa Rosenberg It's totally irresponsible to judge a work based on a 14-second clip--and it's worse to base your whole view of ...

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