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March 16 marks the 50th anniversary of an event that few Americans want to remember. In 1968, Charlie Company, a unit of the 11th Brigade, 20th Infantry, entered the village of My Lai in South Vietnam
For 11 years, Bessie Strawther longed for a chance to visit her son’s grave. Pvt. Henry Strawther, a black American soldier in a segregated infantry unit, had died fighting the German army on Oct. 6, 1918, nearly five weeks before World War I ended in armistice.
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During Game 6 of this year’s World Series, a man held up a sign. On top, it read, “1988: Father and son at World Series.” On the bottom, “2017: Father, son and grandson at World Series.” . . .
The article is about African Americans’ responses to the segregation of the gold star mother pilgrimages of the early 1930s, and what those responses reveal about the shifting landscape of black politics in the interwar period.
Our chair Pamela Radcliff participated in a panel of judges to evaluate group presentations by 7th grade history students in Mr. Kuhn's class at the project-based Soul Charter School in Solana Beach, CA. The students' assignment was to take a "failed state" and redesign it, and they chose North Korea, South Sudan, Syria, and Venezuela. When the students started their research, Professors Todd Henry, Jeremy Prestholdt, Hasan Kayali, Michael Provence and Matthew Vitz shared their expertise by providing the groups with accessible readings for them to learn about their countries.