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Great grandfather who helped end slavery and save a nation remembered
May 7, 2014An unpublished manuscript "The Diary of Francis Marion Wheeler 1842-1899" has been gathering dust on a bookshelf in our house for many years. Once I picked it up, I could not put it down.
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Unauthorized
May 7, 2014"There will be no revolutionary time-outs 'til we've finally won, 'cause the revolution will be unauthorized."
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Today in labor history: end of the “Vietnam era”
May 7, 2014On May 7, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford formally declared an end to the "Vietnam era."
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The war on film
May 7, 2014As the generation who fought in World War II dwindles in numbers, we are losing crucial first-hand testimony of the heroic struggles to defeat fascism.
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Progressive cinema: Whistleblowers at Tribeca
May 7, 2014Certainly the film of most interest to progressives at the Tribeca Film Festival this year would be 1971, directed and written by Johanna Hamilton.
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