TODAY IN HISTORY/Jan. 1
Today’s Highlight in History:
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President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863, in Washington
“America has always had a gun problem, but never on this scale,” writes historian Dominic Erdozain. He says the norms of today would have been unthinkable to Americans of any other era.
A conservative mastermind of the race-based “Southern strategy,” he later, as a writer, had second thoughts after assessing income inequality under three Republican presidents.
The U.S. government named 22 defendants in its suit to stop The Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. Two Times journalists designed a way to show support for their colleagues.