Since Memorial Day cartoons seem predictable, I thought I’d go back a century and see what they were doing then, when it was still called Decoration Day. E.A. Bushnell kicks off our coverage. The US was in the middle of the World War, on the verge of having a million men in Europe and not far […]
Eight-five years ago yesterday, suffragists seized upon the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson to stage a major march in Washington. While they had hardly planned for it to be disruptive, the bad behavior of the mostly-male crowds, plus the lack of adequate response by the Washington police force, touched off a scandal that brought many Americans […]