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Sunday Animation: The Petard Pinch

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The Petard Pinch from Mike Brookes on Vimeo. It’s 1942, and Britain is in the midst of WW2. On HMS Petard, amidst battle, three men act with bravery and courage, in the process capturing vital Nazi documents and secret codebooks that helped Bletchley Park to crack the enigma code, and ultimately help win the war.…

Film, History

Film: Remembering Amache

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We were right to fight the war against Japan until our victory; it was nonetheless a profound error to place Americans of Japanese descent into camps during that war. See, also, Revisiting a World War II Internment Camp, as Others Try to Keep Its Story From Fading @ New York Times.

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Jefferson’s Hotel Stay & Public Policy

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There’s an oft-repeated story about Thomas Jefferson’s visit to a Baltimore hotel when Jefferson was vice-president of the United States.  (I don’t know the date of story’s first written account, or where that account first appeared.) Here’s the telling of Mr. Jefferson’s unsuccessful reservation, from a website on the vice-presidency: In another classic anecdote, our…

Film, History, Press

Film: The Newspaper Crisis of 1945

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Print newspapers once dominated America’s news media and culture. Those days are long past; they’ll not return. Embedded below, though, is a short film describing a newspaper strike in 1945, told from the point-of-view of a New York newspaper and emphasizing how important newspapers once were.