
Between Family, Nation, and Scholarship: Negotiating Ancestral Origins in Post-1945 South Korea

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Members of Young Americans for Freedom ride in a vehicle as they participate in the Loyalty Day Parade in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1966.

Jane Addams circa 1891






This research note discusses in some detail the economic problems with the very popular Old-Age Revolving Pension Plan (aka the Townsend Plan promoted and publicized by Dr. Francis E. Townsend (above)) of the 1930’s.











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On June 16, 1918, Debs delivered his famous Canton speech — “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles” — which would eventually land him in federal prison. He would remain there until Christmas morning 1921.