Dylan O'Daily 75 years ago today, US Marines raised the American flag over Iwo Jima. Here's the inside story CNN - By Thom Patterson, CNN(CNN) — Some say it's the most famous, perfectly composed news photo of all time. Sunday marks 75 years since Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the iconic photograph of six US Marines
Dylan O'Daily The Lost 110 Words of Our Constitution POLITICO - By JOSHUA GELTZERThe 14th Amendment says states that infringe the vote must lose representation in Congress. It’s time to make this happen. The U.S. Constitution is famously short—a mere 7,591 words, including its 27 That
Dylan O'Daily This is the Bloody Baptism American Forces Faced in the Korean War nationalinterest.org - Daniel L. Davis The Korean War was no joke and millions died. Key point: War is terrible, especially for forces that were used to lighter occupation duties. Every …
Dylan O'Daily ‘Miracle on Ice’ 40 years later: Team looks back on historic victory NBC NewsOn this day 40 years ago, the U.S. men’s hockey team shocked the world by beating the powerhouse Soviet Union. That win, and the team’s eventual gold medal victory, boosted American morale at a pivotal
Dylan O'Daily What Would Happen if Trump Refused to Leave Office? The Atlantic - Barbara McQuadeA peaceful transfer of power is necessary for American democracy to survive. If Donald Trump is defeated in November 2020, his presidency will end on January 20, 2021. If he is reelected, then, barring
Dylan O'Daily This isn't an election: It's a civil war, and our side isn't necessarily winning Salon - Lucian K. Truscott IVIn what amounted to a casual aside at his rally in Colorado Springs on Thursday night, Donald Trump drew the battle lines in this election as clearly as I've heard them drawn yet. Facing another of his
Dylan O'Daily The dramatic death of a former president at the U.S. Capitol pbs.org - Dr. Howard Markel Battles between the U.S. House of Representatives and the executive branch have made headlines and history in recent months. Yet perhaps the …
Dylan O'Daily Why Afghanistan Is America’s Greatest Strategic Disaster foreignpolicy.com - Michael Hirsh Way back in January 2002, a few weeks after the Taliban fled terrified from Kabul, Kandahar, and other major cities, I went to Afghanistan to report …
Dylan O'Daily Sacramento Bee photographer reflects on California's apology for WWII Japanese-American internment camps abc10.com - Author: Chris Thomas, Joseph Daniels (ABC10) SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Seventy-eight years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, California has officially apologized for its …
Dylan O'DailyNews In An Internment Camp, Maggie The Magpie Lifted Spirits NPR - Jud Esty-Kendall, Mia Warren, Sylvie Lubow, Emma BowmanShig Yabu was 10 years old when he and his family were forced from their home in San Francisco and relocated to an internment camp in Wyoming. In 1942, two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor,
Dylan O'DailyMilitary History Adolf Hitler's Fear Of U.S. General George Patton Was Not Unfounded nationalinterest.org - Warfare History Network Patton took no great pleasure in the end of the war in Europe.Key point: By his very nature and background, Patton was unsuited to his role as …
Dylan O'DailyAncient History Elite Warriors in History ancient.eu - Mark Cartwright Winning battles and forging empires was not just about numbers but also the quality of the troops at any commander's disposal. The best-trained, …
Dylan O'DailyMilitary Facing falling enlistment numbers, the U.S. Army takes a new approach to recruitment: Mom and dad Fortune - Nicole Goodkind Gone are the days when the United States Army plastered airwaves with recruitment ads featuring images of young men parachuting out of planes, …
Dylan O'DailyHistory From Lincoln to Trump: a brief history of the US Republican Party historyextra.com - Elinor Evans It was born in the 1850s as an antislavery party led by Abraham Lincoln and, up until the 1930s, remained the natural party of African-Americans. …
Dylan O'DailySpokane, WA Long lost letters found in Spokane detail one Japanese American family's struggle during WWII - KXLY kxly.com - by Long lost letters found in Spokane detail one Japanese American family’s struggle during WWII SPOKANE, Wash. — Seventy-eight years ago on Wednesday, …
Dylan O'DailyCulture Recognition of Major Osage Leader and Warrior Opens a New Window Into History smithsonianmag.com - Taína Caragol In 1904, the priest of the Gentle Sky clan, Shonke Mon-thi^, came to Washington, D.C. as a member of an Osage delegation to negotiate the land and …
Dylan O'DailyPolitics The First Days of the Trump Regime The Atlantic - Adam SerwerThe president has interpreted the Republican-controlled Senate’s vote to acquit as a writ of absolute power. There are two kinds of Republican senators who voted to acquit Donald Trump in his impeachment
Dylan O'DailyNews When Jim Crow Reigned Amid the Rubble of Nazi Germany The New York Times - Alexis ClarkIn commemoration of Black History Month, the latest article from “Beyond the World War II We Know,” a series by The Times that documents lesser-known stories from World War II, focuses on the challenges
Dylan O'DailyArchaeology Late 19th-Century Chinatown Unearthed in Montana - Archaeology Magazine archaeology.org - Jessica E. Saraceni MISSOULA, MONTANA—Missoulian reports that artifacts dating back to the late nineteenth century were recovered by archaeologists working at a …
Dylan O'DailyU.S. Politics The Myth of George Washington’s Post-Presidency POLITICO - By JONATHAN HORNWhen Washington left the presidency, he didn’t really leave politics at all. In the wake of the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, little sums up the confused state of the campaign to defeat President Trump
Dylan O'DailyWomen's News What Really Kept American Women From Going To Space For So Long? Forbes - Ethan SiegelOn June 18, 1983, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched with a crew of five persons aboard, including Sally Ride, who on that date became the first American woman to leave Earth and enter space. But for
Dylan O'DailyThomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson | American Experience | PBS pbs.org Thomas Jefferson was a contradictory character: the Virginia aristocrat known as the "man of the people"; the president who simplified the office yet …
Dylan O'DailyNews Colorado teacher, students rebuild Japanese American prison camp piece by piece NBC News - By Sarah KutaThanks to their efforts, Amache, which opened in the fall of 1942 a mile outside Granada, Colorado, is now being considered as a new national park. Gary Ono has fleeting memories of his time in a Colorado
Dylan O'DailyU.S. Politics Top NSC official may be moved after "Anonymous" rumor fallout - Axios Axios - Margaret Talev,Margaret Talev Top Trump administration officials are in discussions to reassign deputy national security adviser Victoria Coates to the Department of Energy from …
Dylan O'DailyNews Plymouth Rock vandalized, covered in graffiti: 'Why? Why would someone do this?' USA TODAY - Rich HarbertPLYMOUTH, Mass. – “Why? Why? Why would someone do this?” Gayle Manning asked as she looked down at vandalized Plymouth Rock on Monday morning. She was one of many who traveled to the Plymouth waterfront
Dylan O'DailyLiberal View With One Tweet, Obama Takes Credit For The Economy Back From Trump politicususa.com - Jason Easley Former President Barack Obama reminded everyone who is really responsible for the current economy with a single tweet marking the anniversary of the …
Dylan O'DailyBattle of Iwo Jima Battle of Iwo Jima 75 years on Reuters - Reuters EditorialU.S. Marines raise the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, 1945. Courtesy U.S. National Archives/U.S. Marine Corps Photograph/Private Bob Campbell/Handout via REUTERS (Reuters) - This month
Dylan O'DailyWalt Whitman The Library of Congress Needs Help Transcribing Walt Whitman’s Poems and Letters mentalfloss.com - BY Michele Debczak From O Captain! My Captain! to Song of Myself, Walt Whitman produced some of literature's most memorable poems. But for every work published in his …
Dylan O'DailyPublic Land The Bureau of Land Management wants to go back to the Dust Bowl era Salon - Sarah OkesonTrump's Bureau of Land Management, now run by attorney William Perry Pendley, wants to take our nation back to the 1930s Dust Bowl. That was when ranchers lorded over public land and their cattle grazed
