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• Growing up in the Last Century: WASHINGTON IN THE 1970s; FIRST TASTE OF CAPITOL...

  

  What I looked like on first arriving in Washington D.C. in August 1973, fifty years ago, to start law school. 1973 had been a big, messy, turbulent year in my... Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2023 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Growing up in the Last Century: DAD'S POLITICAL CAREER

  

  One day shortly before my father passed away almost 30 years ago, in late 1994 at age 86, he started talking to me about his brief career in politics back in th... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2023 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Growing Up in the Last Century-- MY FIRST TASTE OF POLITICS: GETTING KICKED OUT...

  

  Albany's long-time Mayor Erastus Corning with Democratic Party Chairman Dan O'Connell (with hat), circa 1970. This story is complicated, so bear with me. Read more

  Posted on 09 January 2022 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Growing Up in the Last Century: TEAR-GASSED in WASHINGTON, D.C., May 1970

  

  I was just 18 years old, a college freshman, on May 4, 1970, when National Guardsmen in Ohio opened fire and killed four student protestors at Kent State... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2021 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Boss Tweed Audiobook : The Images and a Five Minute Sample

  

  Audiobooks are heard, not seen, but the story of Boss Tweed is immersed in visual arts: newspaper cartoons, headlines, and charts. Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2020 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Thoughts on the Covid-19 Crisis

  We are living through a crazy historical time. The whole country literally has shut down almost two full months, schools, offices, gyms, colleges, restaurants,... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2020 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Latest Reviews of Trotsky in New York,1917:Publishers Wee...

  

  Latest reviews of Trotsky in New York,1917:Publishers WeeklyKirkus Reviews Articles"Is UK's Jeremy Corbyn a Trotskyist? Seriously?" Huffington Post, August 23,... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2016 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Coverage of Trotsky's Arrival in New York, from the German and Yiddish Press

  

  Trotsky's ship, the Spanish steamer Montserrat, landed at pier 8 at the bottom tip of Manhattan at about 3am on Sunday, January 14, 1917, a cold winter morning. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2016 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Trotsky's Take on the Carnegie Hall Anti-war Meeting, February 8, 1917, from...

  

  Leon Trotsky wrote this article after attending a highly touted rally at Carnegie Hall opposing American entry into World War I. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2016 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Trotsky's Take on the Carnegie Hall Anti-war Meeting, February 8, 1917, from...

  

  Trotsky wrote this article after attending a highly touted rally at Carnegie Hall of groups opposing American entry into World War I. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2016 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Grisha Ziv on Trotsky, 1917, Translated from Original Russian

  

  Trotsky, right, Alexandra Sokolovskaya, standing, and Ziv, front, circa 1898.Of all the people Leon Trotsky met during his 1917 ten-week stay in New York City,... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2016 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• We've Moved !!! Visit Us at Our New Address.

  Hi Everyone-- Viral History has moved to a new address on the internet. Thanks for your support over the years making us a go-to forum for history that... Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2016 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• A New Crimean War? Really?

  

  As a historian watching Vladimir Putin's Russia flout international law to send troops into Crimea – part of the separate country of Ukraine – it is truly hard... Read more

  Posted on 03 March 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Yiddish Theater: Don't Forget Molly Picon

  

  Yiddish is not beautiful. Harsh and gutteral, it makes you twist your face to get the sounds out. Many of its words are bastardized from German, Slavic,... Read more

  Posted on 01 February 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Post: David Taylor on Anzia Yezierska, Part II

  

  Anzia Yerierska as a teenager in 1910s New York. Click here for Part I on Anzia’s rise, novels, films, and craft. Anzia Yezierska paid a price for being... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Guest Blog: David Taylor on Anzia Yezierska, America's Immigrant "Hungry Heart"...

  

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  Posted on 21 January 2014 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• More from Alice Longworth's Scrapbook.

  

  German newspaper clip shows Alice socializing with ladies aboard the steamer Schiffes in 1905. Click here for -- Alice and Nick Longworth engagement photos... Read more

  Posted on 18 September 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Alice Roosevelt and Nick Longworth: The Actual Engagement Photos

  

  Alice wasn't shy in saving photos of herself. This spread filled two full pages of the oversized scrapbook. Read more

  Posted on 28 August 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Luck in Politics? Ask Nick Longworth (R-Ohio), Speaker of the House,1925-1931.

  

  Page from 1887 Longworth scrapbook, Manuscript Room, Library of Congress. Click here for -- Alice and Nick's engagement photos -- More photos from Alice... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2013 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS

• Health Food Claims? Nothing New Here.

  

   From the New York City's Jewish Daily News, July 12, 1926. "Zeit Gezunt!" says the headline. "Be Healthy!" This quarter-page ad for the "Natural Health Food... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2012 CULTURE, HISTORY, POLITICS