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“When there is no vision the people perish.” The President rallies the nation.

by drkeithcox | Mar 13, 2020 | 11 The Great Depression US, History Matters, Main, Video

President Hoover, Mr. Chief Justice, my friends: This is a day of national consecration. And I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency, I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation...

MLK: Beyond Vietnam A Time to Break Silence

by drkeithcox | Jan 26, 2020 | Audio, Media, Resources

MLK anti-Vietnam War speech at Riverside Church, NY, NY, delivered 4 April 1967.

CNN: Schiff Closing Argument in Trump Impeachment Trial

by drkeithcox | Jan 25, 2020 | History Matters, Media, Primary Sources, Resources, Video

Adam Schiff (D-CA) warns that the President must be removed. 1/24/2020 Transcript (starting at 39:45) Now, soon members of the body will face the most momentous of decisions. Not, as I said at the outset, between guilt or innocence, but a far more foundational issue:...

The full proceedings of the High Court of Iustice against King Charles in Westminster Hall

by drkeithcox | Sep 1, 2019 | Early Modern England, Primary Sources, Resources

The full proceedings of the High Court of Iustice against King Charles in Westminster Hall, on Saturday the 20 of January, 1648 together with the Kings reasons and speeches and his deportment on the scaffold before his execution Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649,...

September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden – 1907-1973

by drkeithcox | Sep 1, 2019 | Primary Sources, Resources, World War II

September 1, 1939 W. H. Auden – 1907-1973 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our...

MLK: Address at the Conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March

by drkeithcox | Aug 30, 2019 | 14 The Sixties US, Primary Sources, Resources

March 25, 1965 My dear and abiding friends, Ralph Abernathy, and to all of the distinguished Americans seated here on the rostrum, my friends and co-workers of the state of Alabama, and to all of the freedom-loving people who have assembled here this afternoon from...
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