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The Red Scare reached national prominence with the accusations of Whittaker Chambers, a former Communist Party member, against Alger Hiss, a former top State Department official. A young Richard Nixon helps to keep the accusations in the news, culminating in the discovery of the "Pumpkin Papers," microfiche hidden in Chamber...
Alongside Astor's kind of optimism, the Socialist critique of society and the era's muckraking passions continued, contributing darker shades to images of the future. In 1903 William Wallace Cook, a newspaperman and free-lance writer, published A Round Trip to the Year 2000, in which robots known as...
The paroxysm of killing in Rwanda took place on a massive scale. Between 500,000 and one million Rwandans were slaughtered in less than three months. No gas chambers or concentrations camps were used; the killing was done with machine guns and machetes, in classrooms and churches. Neighbors turned on...
Bennett hung up and immediately called White House counsel Charles Ruff. Ruff transferred him to the military operator so that Bennett could tell the President himself. And while Bennett was waiting for a line to the President in Senegal, it occurred to him that he had better check and make...
But maybe, and despite all the well-publicized gains, it just wasn't our century. American women only got the vote in 1920 (and a rest room near the Senate chambers only in 1992). For most of the past 98 years, much of the world's female population has been...