For me, the year 1968 is symbolized by a single dark evening that haunts me to this day. I was at the campus paper, the Michigan Daily, when the bulletin came over the clattering AP newswire that ...

What’s happening in America’s streets is ugly, violent, and disturbing. It’s one of the most sustained periods of national unrest in decades. But it’s still nothing like 1968. In the spring of 2004, a ...

In modern United States history, few years are remembered with such mixed emotion as 1968. The year began with the Tet Offensive and the Mai Lai Massacre in Vietnam, turning points in the conflict ...

Demonstrators used park benches to construct a barricade against Chicago police and National Guardsmen during the 1968 Democratic convention. The confrontation left many injured and arrested.

The year 1968 was by any measure a bad one for America. Two of our nation's leaders were assassinated—Senator Robert Kennedy and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. Following King's murder, riots swept ...

Forty years ago last Friday, one of the most shattering periods in American political history began with the assassination in Memphis of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and ended two months later with the ...

In 1968, the year I graduated high school and started college, I believed the world was coming to an end. The air was thick with tension and uncertainty. On my daily commute to the Cleveland State ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The year 1968 was one of great social upheaval in America. Just like today, America saw massive street protests as violence broke out between police and demonstrators. We were a deeply ...

Fresh evidence of the nastiness and divisiveness of the 2020 presidential election emerges every day. President Trump has let loose a storm of invective over Twitter about various African American ...

Two weeks after American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power salute at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico, two Yale cheerleaders echo the protest at the Yale-Dartmouth football ...

One of my professors told me that in 1963 when I was a history graduate student working on a dissertation on the New Deal era. I don’t think he meant it literally; history is about the present and ...