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Burnishing Buchanan's Brand On His Birthday, Michael J. Birkner
Burnishing Buchanan's Brand On His Birthday, Michael J. Birkner
History Faculty Publications
James Buchanan’s brand needs refreshing.
Outside his hometown, his name does not much register with Americans today. When it does, the reaction is usually negative. What a comedown from the high hopes associated with Old Buck’s election to the presidency in 1856. [excerpt]
Lancastrians Marched With Dr. King In Selma, Michael J. Birkner
Lancastrians Marched With Dr. King In Selma, Michael J. Birkner
History Faculty Publications
Fifty years after he addressed a crowd in Lancaster’s Penn Square about “the idea that all men are one,” Wayne Glick remembers that moment as if it happened yesterday. Glick’s speech, inviting Lancastrians to participate in the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, on behalf of African-American voting rights, is a footnote to Lancaster County history. But the march itself, featured in the popular film “Selma,” helped to change America. [excerpt]