Trial of Richard Hickock and Perry Smith for murder of the Clutter family in Kansas. They are sentenced to hang. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 becomes law. It seeks to protect the right of black Americans to vote by providing "voter...
A human aorta transplant is performed, the hepititis A virus is isolated and photographed, and penicillin is synthesized. A new antibiotic, Terramycin, is developed. Blood tests for tuberculosis are introduced. Stomach cancers are detected...
The history of the United States from 1945 through 1964 covers the beginnings of the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement. The period of United States history is seen as a period of active foreign policy designed to rescue Europe from the devastation...
Michael F. Hopkins, Michael D. Kandiah, and Gillian Staerck, eds. Cold War Britain, 1945-1964: New Perspectives. New York: Palgrave. 2003. Pp. ix, 244. $72.00. ISBN 1-4039-0121-X. Gathering papers given at a conference in 1997, this book premises that the Cold War, as the...
Southern United States: An Environmental History. By Donald E. Davis, with Craig E. Colten, Megan Kate Nelson, Barbara L. Allen, and Mikko Saikku. Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Nature and Human Societies Series, edited by Mark R. Stoll. xxii + 409 pp. Illustrations, notes,...
Politics: Ted Kennedy attaches hate crime legislation to a needed defense authorization bill. Is he more interested in defending the U.S. or the gay rights agenda?Knowing that President Bush would veto it as a stand-alone bill, Sen. Kennedy attached to the recently passed bill authorizing...
American economist and educator (b. July 31, 1912, Brooklyn, N.Y. —d. Nov. 16, 2006, San Francisco, Calif. ), was one of the leading proponents of monetarism in the second half of the 20th century; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1976. Friedman...
