For me, the year 1968 is symbolized by a single dark evening that haunts me to this day. I was at the campus paper, the Michigan Daily, when the bulletin came over the clattering AP newswire that ...

In modern United States history, few years are remembered with such mixed emotion as 1968. The year began with the Tet Offensive and the Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam, turning points in the conflict ...

It was a year of evolution and revolution, one filled with newly galvanized protest movements and civil rights milestones, but also tinged by a war spinning out of control, assassinations, violent ...

The year 1968 was by any measure a bad one for America. Two of our nation's leaders were assassinated—Senator Robert Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Following King's murder, riots swept ...

Chicago has hosted more presidential conventions than any other U.S. city, stretching back to 1860 when Republicans nominated Abraham Lincoln, but perhaps none was as notorious or as consequential as ...

Demonstrators used park benches to construct a barricade against Chicago police and National Guardsmen during the 1968 Democratic convention. The confrontation left many injured and arrested.

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What’s happening in America’s streets is ugly, violent, and disturbing. It’s one of the most sustained periods of national unrest in decades. But it’s still nothing like 1968. In the spring of 2004, a ...

America is shocked and saddened by the brutal slaying tonight of Dr. Martin Luther King. I ask every citizen to reject the blind violence that has struck Dr. King, who lived by nonviolence. I pray ...

Fresh evidence of the nastiness and divisiveness of the 2020 presidential election emerges every day. President Trump has let loose a storm of invective over Twitter about various African American ...

One of my professors told me that in 1963 when I was a history graduate student working on a dissertation on the New Deal era. I don’t think he meant it literally; history is about the present and ...