Historical Literacy and Futurama

In The Guardian (UK), Mark Lawson writes that he used to think that television was bad for historical literacy. Recently, though, while watching an episode of Glee, I wondered if this theory was entirely right and asked a passing 11-year-old to list all the US...

41 Years Ago – RN Unveils Family Assistance Plan

In a nationally televised address on August 8, 1969, RN unveiled a series of domestic policies aimed at combating welfare dependency, alleviating poverty, and making government a more effective and responsible actor at solving America’s urban crisis. The...

Video: The Road to Peking went through Bucharest

While President Nixon’s visit to Romania in 1969 was not his first to that country, it was the first visit by a President of the United States to Romania, the first to a socialist country, and the first to a state of Eastern Europe. Two years prior, having had his...