Cleveland Centennial!

Roosevelt is Jewish. Rosenfeld was the first name and he wasn’t regarded as one of the first founders of Jewry in this country, either. ...

"Demagoguery and stupidity are the natural enemies of democracy." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt "Democracy is doomed. This is o...

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and raised largely by her grandparents. Her family,...

My earliest experience with Little Orphan Annie was the 1977 Broadway musical . I saw a touring production (at the Hanna?) in the late...

Library research can be well=planned, it can also be a scavenger hunt. Having never been a very good student, not really, not ever, walking...

The Socialist Party of America also held their convention in Cleveland in 1936. In a rift that led to many right wing party members to form...

The New Yorker, September 16, 1936 Okay, someone has to explain this to me. So I found out was a Trans-Lux is, they manufacture stock tick...

History is more interesting than you think it is. It is more awful than you think it is. It is more nuanced and subtle than you think i...

The state of Main had so long been a bellwether of national politics that there was and old saying; "As goes Maine, so goes the nation....

Prior to arriving at the idea of a sit-down strike, laborers who wanted to go on strike risked violent retaliation, replacement workers taki...

May 18, 1936 The Republican convention in Cleveland that June reflected the divide within the party: The most rousing speech came from ex...