I stopped my LGM Film Club series when I took a break from the site in August. Been meaning to bring it back, but haven't. Here's a good excuse to get it started again. I was watching Yasujiro Ozu's 1931 film Tokyo Chorus the other...
herbert hoover
Look, I know it's been your dream to see Herbert Hoover home movies in color. That is what this series is for, to fulfill your dreams. https://www.youtube.com/embed/5QF15WPv5yA
This is the grave of Herbert Hoover. As the semester ends, I am overloaded with grading, so I don't have time to provide a full biography of Hoover. It's easy.
On July 28, 1932, the U.S. Army 12th Infantry regiment commanded by Douglas MacArthur and the 3rd Calvary Regiment, supported by six battle tanks commanded by Major George Patton violently evicted the Bonus Army from their Washington, D.C. encampment. This violent action and horrible treatment...
Sabeel Rahman has a piece in the The Nation that reviews some of the journal's classic essays from the Progressive Era as a way for us to learn about that.
There's a long-standing myth repeated, among others, by the Obama Administration, that FDR hung Herbert Hoover out to dry after the 1932 election, refusing to help the president try and.
I occasionally get the question of what the above phrase means. It was my tagline when I wrote at my own blog and it is on the rotating lines at the top of this blog. It is a quote from Herbert Hoover, a strong believer...