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“Nixon now! Nixon now! More than ever we need Nixon now!” It's the 5th of November 1968, and Richard M. Nixon... more
The Democratic National Convention is in Chicago, and the incumbent president, Lyndon B. Johnson, has pulled out of the race.... more
“Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!” George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, was one of the most successful third-party presidential candidates... more
“What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred;... more
The peaceful figurehead of the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, Dr Martin Luther King had inspired hundreds of... more
"Tonight I want to speak to you of peace in Vietnam and Southeast Asia.” On the night of Sunday, 31st of... more
“Let us march! Let us march! May impure blood water our fields!” Written after the declaration of war against Austria in... more
The war between revolutionary France and the allied powers of Prussia and Austria has reached fever pitch, and in early... more
During the "Ancien Regime", royal executioners held an unholy status, and would strike up fear in the crowds as they... more
“You have shaken off the yoke of your despots, but surely this was not to bend the knee before a... more