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Liberalism in the United States

  • Condé NastCondé Nast began with a single purchase: in 1909, a New York City-born publisher named Condé Montrose Nast bought Vogue, a weekly journal of society and…
  • John F. KennedyJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas on the 22nd of November 1963, while riding in a presidential motorcade.
  • New DealThe New Deal arrived in 1933 as a wager that democratic government could pull a nation back from the edge of collapse. When Franklin D.
  • Lyndon B. JohnsonLyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States aboard Air Force One, just hours after the assassination of John F.
  • Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson was three years old when he heard a man outside the Augusta parsonage announce in disgust that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war…
  • Rolling StoneRolling Stone launched on the 9th of November, 1967, with a cover photo of John Lennon dressed for battle in a Brodie helmet, fresh from the set of How I Won…
  • Harry S. TrumanHarry S. Truman became the 33rd president of the United States not by winning an election, but by walking into a room where Eleanor Roosevelt told him her…
  • 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.comSalon.com launched in November 1995 with an unusual self-description: a "smart tabloid." Founder David Talbot, a former arts and features editor at the San…
  • Upton SinclairUpton Sinclair once wrote, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He penned that line…
  • NAACPThe National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was born from outrage. In Springfield, Illinois, the state capital and Abraham Lincoln's…
  • Daniel Patrick MoynihanDaniel Patrick Moynihan shined shoes at Pennsylvania Station as a boy during the Great Depression, in the same building he would later spend decades fighting…
  • Civil rights movementsCivil rights movements have stretched across every inhabited continent, each one born from a specific moment of refusal.