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Presidential Politics And The Press, Michael J. Birkner
Presidential Politics And The Press, Michael J. Birkner
History Faculty Publications
As the Tet offensive wound down early in March 1968 with staggering losses dealt the North Vietnamese invaders, President Lyndon B. Johnson flicked on one of his White House television sets and heard CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite declare the Vietnam war to be "mired in stalemate." Johnson reportedly turned, visibly shaken, to an aide and said, "It's all over." By month's end, LBJ announced his decision not to seek reelection, in order, he said, to devote his energies to negotiating peace in Vietnam.
No single vignette more graphically symbolizes the power of the press-or at least that of its most …
Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents And Family Letters (Book Review), Charles T. Eby
Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents And Family Letters (Book Review), Charles T. Eby
History Faculty Publications
Book review by Charles T. Eby.
Tennessee John Stoltzfus: Amish Church-Related Documents and Family Letters. Edited and annotated by Paton Yoder. Translated by Noah G. Good. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1987.
Riley’S Empire: Northwestern Bible School And Fundamentalism In The Upper Midwest, William Vance Trollinger
Riley’S Empire: Northwestern Bible School And Fundamentalism In The Upper Midwest, William Vance Trollinger
History Faculty Publications
In the 1920s a loosely-united band of militant conservatives launched a crusade to capture control of the major Protestant denominations. These fundamentalists staunchly affirmed the supernaturalness and literal accuracy of the Bible, the supernatural character of Christ, and the necessity of Christians to separate themselves from the world.
Most often Baptists and Presbyterians, they struggled to re-establish their denominations as true and pure churches: true to the historic doctrines of the faith as they perceived them, and pure from what they saw as the polluting influences of an increasingly corrupt modern culture. But by the late 1920s the fundamentalists had …
Rethinking The Farm Revolt Of The 1930s, Willam C. Pratt
Rethinking The Farm Revolt Of The 1930s, Willam C. Pratt
History Faculty Publications
The northern Plains witnessed the last great farm revolt in its history during the 1930s, when a flood of protest spilled across the region, fed by the springs of hard times and earlier insurgencies. The countryside, for one last moment, forced itself upon the rest of the country and demanded attention for its plight. After a period of high visibility, these efforts receded in the wake of New Deal programs that seemingly undercut the rural revolt. Many of the protesters arrived at an accommodation with the new regime, accepting "half-aloof now" in terms of wheat allotment checks and refinanced mortgages …