In case you missed this story over the weekend, the Texas Legislature has approved sweeping new changes to the content of textbooks used by schoolchildren there. And since Texas is the second largest market for textbooks in the nation and…
Tag Archive for History
First Lunar Landing: 40 Years Ago Today
by Chris Prevatt • • 1 Comment
“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” — Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 Fourty years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land on the moon. They landed at 20:17 UTC (13:17 PDT) on July 20…
Why People Are Leaving the GOP in Droves
by Bill Spaulding • • 1 Comment
Arlen Specter left for strategic political reasons. Some folks have left to jump on the Obama bandwagon. Some are leaving because of the Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin debacles. But others are leaving out of pure shame. Today, North Carolina…
John Hope Franklin (1915-2009): Historian and Fighter for Justice
by Michael D. Fox • • Comments Off
Academics and intellectuals – and college professors in particular – are often thought of as living in an Ivory Tower – dispassionate, disconnected, and aloof from the everyday world. And, for the most part, this reputation is deserved, especially in…
Well Dad, what are you waiting for?
by Mike Matsuda • • 7 Comments
I voted yesterday with my son, Ethan, sitting beside me at the kitchen table. My wife Suzie, who is a naturalized Vietnamese-American, insists on the ritual of going to the polls on election day. Looking at our son, she said,…
34 Years Ago…
by Dan Chmielewski • • 6 Comments
August 8 & 9, 1974; I remember those days so well. Â President Nixon resigned in disgrace amid the Watergate scandal. At ComicCon two weeks ago, I picked up a bumper sticker: “I Never Thought I’d Miss Nixon.” Â Compared with what…
Harvey Milk Day May 22nd
by Chris Prevatt • • 4 Comments
In an LA Times Blog story this afternoon it is reported that a bill introduced by Assemblyman Mark Leno and State Senator Sheia Kuehl was narrowly approved Tuesday morning in the Senate that would require the Governor to proclaim May…
