Posts By James Sheridan
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Politics
The Courage of Ida Wells Barnett
Ida Wells’s Beginnings Ida Bell Wells, daughter of James and Lizzie Wells, was born into slavery during the Civil War on July...
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Political Education
The Assassination of Fred Hampton and Mistrust for the Chicago Police Department
Mistrust for the Chicago Police Department is not new. Let us look at the case of Fred Hampton. Fred Hampton was a...
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Labor or Unions
What Else Does Labor Want?
We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals;more learning and less vice;more leisure and less greed; more justice...
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Political Education
Integrity
Dr. Deborah Birx was responsible for coordinating the previous administration’s White House coronavirus response. She recently made news when she admitted in a...
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Political Education
McCarthyism and the Media
Early news coverage of McCarthy’s charges worked in the Senator’s favor. Newsprint did not capture the wild man image that television did....
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Political Education
Republican Support for McCarthism
Senate Liberals feared that a unified Democratic denunciation of Senator Joseph McCarthy. They feared it would only result in the G.O.P. uniting...
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Political Education
The Liberal Response to McCarthyism
How did liberals respond in the McCarthy era, and how should they have responded? This question is still a source of controversy...
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Political Education
Elements of McCarthyism
Most textbook and encyclopedia definitions of McCarthyism refer to unsupported and unfair accusations against innocent parties. McCarthyism has been considered a style...
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Political Education
The McCarthy Era
Joseph R. McCarthy was elected United States Senator from Wisconsin in 1948 following his upset victory over ‘Young Bob’ LaFollette in the...
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Politics
The Patty Hearst Brain Washing Defense
Authoritarian political cults such as Qanon not only indoctrinate their members with conspiracy theories but have also moved some of those cult...