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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we end 2018, American History TV presents our nine-episode series on the tumultuous year of 1968 which originally aired last spring. The 90-minute interviews using archival film and photos cover: ...

GRAND FORKS-All within one year a half-century ago, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy were assassinated. North Korea captured the USS Pueblo ...

Few years were more terrible to America than 1968. Assassins killed Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy. Protests by anti-war demonstrators, students, and counter-culture activists resulted in ...

Chicago has hosted more presidential nominating conventions than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago ...

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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 ...

As a young child, growing up in Chicago in the 60s our family was familiar with riots. In 1966 Mayor Daley had called out the National Guard to quell a small riot on the west side of the city. Later ...

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