“Do you believe in Miracles?” This was the question Sportscaster Al Michaels asked in Lake Placid, New York on February 22, 1980, seconds before the United States ice hockey team achieved victory against the reigning Soviet Squad in the XIII Olympic Winter Games.[1] The Soviet team had been a heavily favored, extremely experienced juggernaut. Team U.S.A. was a group of mostly college kids that...
Comics themselves are influential enough to serve as their own form of popular media. However, in issue #126C of Amazing Heroes titled “Millenium,” there’s an emphasis placed on popular culture outside of comics themselves. One short article in the beginning of the issue, titled “Captain Eo Hits Stores in August,” brings a music star into the comic world. An ad for a...
An excerpt from a Department of Commerce report, which was drafted on June fifteenth,1950 in response to the Federal Government’s report on suspected homosexual employees in the civil service, helps to provide insight about the conditions and treatment of homosexuals in the Civil Service during the period of time known as the “Lavender Scare (1945-1950’s) a time in which...
The United States’ Declaration of Independence underwent a series of revisions before it was finally signed and submitted on July 4, 1776. One of the most important passages that were omitted in the final draft was one that attacked the cornerstone of the colonist’s economy: the enslavement and treatment of African-Americans. Many esteemed politicians in early North America were divided on the...
Nationally, divorce rates climbed 82 percent during the decade of the 1970s, and in no state was this trend more apparent than in Florida. According to the 1978 records of the Vital Statistics of Florida (VSF), dissolutions of marriage (including annulments) reached an all-time high, while remaining below the 1975 divorce rate, at which it had peaked. The divorce ratio in 1978 was 7.4%, an increase...
Alma College did not require students to have an academic major until the 1908-1909 school year. Prior to that year, students were only required to complete a general degree of study, such as a Bachelor of Arts or Sciences. The 1908-1909 catalog states, “in order to secure to the student the advantage of intensive work, he is required at the proper time to choose two subjects in which he must...
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi all had large state penitentiaries with them, where African-American men and women resided. Many people visited these prisons to listen to and record these talented men and women singing, including the famous folklorists John Lomax, Alan Lomax, and Dr. Harry Oster. The recorded singers talked about...
On March 9, 1979, the U.S. Government issued a restraining order that stopped The Progressive from publishing an article entitled, “The H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It, Why We're Telling It.” The question posed to the court by the U.S. was, “…a clash between allegedly vital security interests of the United States and the competing constitutional doctrine against prior restraint...
On the afternoon of January 29 1979, the same day Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping arrived Washington D.C., President Jimmy Carter met with Deng and exchanged many important ideas about China-US relation. Starting from 5:00 p.m., they began to talk about a serious and sensitive topic: Vietnam.
At first, President Carter indicated that the U.S government had done everything...
African American migrants who came to cities like Detroit with ambitious dreams about prosperity in the North, were sadly disappointed during times of recession in the city when there were not enough jobs available for them. As a consequence of the thousands of jobless, homeless, poorly educated and starving African-Americans in Detroit crime was high and upward mobility was low. Rather than address...