Word: historicization
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Like many historic mistakes, Executive Order 9066 won approval almost offhandedly. On Feb. 11, 1942, preoccupied by a two-front war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt decided not to bother with a meeting on the subject and simply said yes in a phone call to his Secretary of War, adding the...
Another alternative is the fraternities. These organizations--which include Zeta Psi and Alpha Delta Phi--portray themselves as small, quiet fraternities with deep historic roots. All say they are not drinking clubs or business networks--descriptions often used to characterize the final clubs. "Their exclusive activities are what we don...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan yesterday directed Secretary of State George P. Shultz to go to Geneva to sign "historic accords" by which the United States and Soviet Union will guarantee a peace agreement dictating the removal of all Red Army troops from Afghanistan.
The scene is central to the iconography of the cold war: one December day in 1948 on his Westminster, Md., farm, Whittaker Chambers retrieved from a hollowed-out pumpkin a microfilm that implicated former State Department Official Alger Hiss in the passing of Government secrets to the Soviets. Last week...
"It is a historic moment for deaf people around the world." So said a jubilant Irving King Jordan last week, in words and sign language, after being named president of Gallaudet University, the nation's only institution of higher learning for the hearing impaired. Jordan, 44, who is deaf, was...