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With coup label, Capitol rioters join communist party in plotting against USA, university project says CNN 2/3/2021 By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN © Bettmann Archive/Getty Images From left, Communist Party USA members Benjamin Davis Jr., Eugene Dennis, Gilbert Green, John Williamson and Gus Hall are transported to a jail cell in October 1949. The Capitol rioters have joined a small but notorious cadre in the annals of history: a duo that since the end of World War II has attempted to stage coups against the United States of America, a university tracking project finds. The ...

With coup label, Capitol rioters join communist party in plotting against USA, university project says CNN 2/3/2021 By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN © Bettmann Archive/Getty Images From left, Communist Party USA members Benjamin Davis Jr., Eugene Dennis, Gilbert Green, John Williamson and Gus Hall are transported to a jail cell in October 1949. The Capitol rioters have joined a small but notorious cadre in the annals of history: a duo that since the end of World War II has attempted to stage coups against the United States of America, a university tracking project finds. The ...

This Week in History: June 26-July 2, 2017 for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.” Machiavelli June 26 1721 – Dr. Zabdiel Boylston of Massachusetts gives the first untested smallpox inoculation in America to his own son. 1797 – Charles Newbold patents the first cast-iron plow. He can’t sell it to farmers because they fear the effects of iron on soil. 1870 – The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the U.S. 1900 – U.S. Army physician Dr. Walter Reed begins research that, in 1901, leads to the discovery of how to beat Yellow Fever. His ex...

'I Have a Dream' and 99 Other Groundbreaking 20th Century Speeches  By Isabel Sepulveda, Stacker News On 1/31/21 at 11:00 AM EST The 20th century was one of the most varied, hopeful, and tumultuous in world history. From the Gilded Age to the beginning of the Internet Age—with plenty of stops along the way—it was a century punctuated by conflicts including two World Wars, the Cold War, the War in Vietnam, and the development of nuclear warfare. At the same time, the 20th century was characterized by a push for equality: Women in the United States received the right to vote after decad...

Screenwriter and blacklist victim Walter Bernstein dies at 101 Bernstein worked on the screenplays for dozens of films, including Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948, with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine), That Kind of Woman (1959, with Sophia Loren), The Wonderful Country (1959, with Robert Mitchum), A Breath of Scandal (1960), The Magnificent Seven (1960), Miss Evers’ Boys (1997, about the infamous “Tuskegee Study”). Screenwriter/producer Walter Bernstein (right) following a June 7, 2016 screening and Q&A of the 1976 film The Front, whose screenplay Bernstein wrote, at the SVA T...