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Liberalism in the United States
- Condé NastIn 1909, Condé Montrose Nast purchased Vogue, a printed magazine that had launched in 1892 as a New York weekly journal of society and fashion news.
- John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy entered the world on the 29th of May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.
- New DealIn the autumn of 1929, the United States stock market crashed and triggered a chain reaction that would last for four years.
- Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson was born on the 27th of August 1908, in a small farmhouse near Stonewall, Texas. His family lived on the Pedernales River where the…
- Woodrow WilsonIn 1856, a child named Woodrow Wilson stood near the front gate of his family's parsonage in Augusta, Georgia. He was three years old when he heard a…
- Rolling StoneJann Wenner borrowed seven thousand five hundred dollars from his family and the parents of his soon-to-be wife Jane Schindelheim to launch Rolling Stone in…
- Harry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on the 8th of May 1884. He grew up as the oldest child of John Anderson Truman and Martha Ellen Young Truman.
- Liberal Republican Party (United States)In May 1872, a group of men gathered in Missouri to form a new political party. They called themselves Liberal Republicans.
- Modern liberalism in the United StatesIn 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House as the nation faced the economic calamity of the Great Depression.
- Salon.comDavid Talbot launched Salon.com in November 1995, emerging from the ashes of the San Francisco newspaper strike of 1994.
- Upton SinclairUpton Beall Sinclair Jr. entered the world on the 20th of September 1878, in Baltimore, Maryland. His father worked as a liquor salesman while his mother…
- NAACPThe Race Riot of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, the state capital and Abraham Lincoln's hometown, was a catalyst showing the urgent need for an effective…
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the 16th of March 1927. He moved to New York City at age six with his Irish Catholic family.
- Civil rights movementsCivil rights movements emerged as a worldwide series of political campaigns for equality before the law, peaking in intensity during the 1960s.