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The World After W.W. I (The Bookman, 1929)
1929, Aftermath (WWI), The Bookman

The World After W.W. I
(The Bookman, 1929)

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The book review of Winston Churchill’s 1929 tome, The Aftermath:

All too frequently Mr. Churchill passes lightly over the story he alone can tell and repeats the stories that other men have told….[Yet] no one who wants to understand the world he lives in can afford to miss The Aftermath. Would that all contemporary statesmen were one-tenth as willing as Mr. Churchill to tell what they know.


More about Winston Churchill can be read here.


Read the thoughts of one W.W. I veteran who regrets having gone to war…

Prime Minister Winston Churchill TRIVIA | American People Gave Gifts to Winston Churchill 1941 | Winston Churchill Showered With Gifts from Americans 1941-1942
1942, Collier's Magazine, Winston Churchill

Americans ♥ Winston Churchill
(Collier’s Magazine, 1942)

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Shortly after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made a solemn visit to the White House in order to plot the course of the war with FDR. The affect that the Prime Minister impressed upon the average American was profound and was soon made manifest in the form of innumerable gifts that began descending upon the White House addressed to him. An unsigned editorial in Collier’s Magazine noticed the event and remarked:

If we hadn’t liked Mr. Churchill immensely from the moment he arrived here, none of us would have sent him anything. The size and variety of this shower of gifts are the best measure of the terrific hit he made with all kinds and conditions of Americans.

WW1 Mistake Made by Churchill | WW I Failure Battle of Gallipoli | Churchill Removed as First Lord of the Admiralty WW I
1916, Vanity Fair Magazine, Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Steps Down as First Lord of the Admiralty
(Vanity Fair, 1916)

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After the British withdrawal from Gallipoli it was time for the architect of the disaster, Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, to resign his office. Wishing to still play a part in the Great War, Churchill assumed the rank of Major with his old regiment, the Oxfordshire Hussars:

To have been ruler of the King’s Navy, and then to take a subordinate place in a trench in Flanders, involved a considerable change even for one whose life had been full of startling and dramatic moments.


Click here to read a review of Churchill’s remembrance of World War I .

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Wilson's Secretary of State and the Versailles Treaty (Current Opinion, 1922)
1922, Current Opinion Magazine, Versailles Treaty

Wilson’s Secretary of State and the Versailles Treaty
(Current Opinion, 1922)

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Attached is the 1922 book review of Robert Lansing’s (1864 – 1928) book, Big Four, and Others of the Peace Conferencestyle=border:none. In this, Lansing’s follow-up to his earlier book, The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrativestyle=border:none, the author

shows us Clemenceau dominating the conference by sheer force of mind; Wilson outmaneuvered; Lloyd George clever, alert, but not very deep; and Orlando precise and lawyer like. This book confirms the popular belief that the general scheme of the treaty was worked out by the British and French delegations without material aid from the Americans. As a consequence, the American delegation lost prestige.

Wilson's Fourteen Points (Literary Digest, 1919)
1919, The Literary Digest, Versailles Treaty

Wilson’s Fourteen Points
(Literary Digest, 1919)

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Here is a very simple list of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points can be printed off of a PDF by clicking the title above.

Wilson’s Fourteen Points were ignored at Versailles and the United States withdrew it’s support for the historical conference in favor of two separate peace agreements made with Germany and Austria at a later date.


Click here to read more magazine articles about President Woodrow Wilson.

Read a 1936 article concerning Hitler’s Versailles Treaty violations.


The historian Henry Steele Commager ranked Woodrow Wilson at number 18 insofar as his impact on the American mind is concerned – click here to understand his reasoning…

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P.E. Foxworth N.Y. FBI Director Catches Nazi Spy |
1942, American Fascism, PM Tabloid

Bundist Arrested As Spy
(PM Tabloid, 1942)

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Johannes Kroeger, ex-leader of the German-American Bund was picked up by the FBI in the Fall of 1942 for espionage. Employed as a bus driver on Long Island, New York, Kroeger would regularly carry the employees of the Republic Aviation Company to and from work. When pressed for details, the FBI remarked:

Workers in aviation plants talk too much.


Confessions of a Former Racist 1948 | 1940s Anti-Jim Crow Article
1948, African-American History, Coronet Magazine, Recent Articles

How One Southerner Overcame His Racist Attitudes
(Coronet Magazine, 1948)

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The attached is an historic article that explains the lesson that so many white Americans had to learn in order that America become one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. There can be no doubt that many ragged, dog-eared copies of this middle class magazine must have been passed from seat to seat in the backs of many buses; perhaps one of the readers was a nineteen year-old divinity student named Martin Luther King, Jr.?


Before the Atom Bomb came along, Joseph Stalin hatched a scheme to invade the U.S. and create two Americas, one black, one white – click here to read more…

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The Rise of Oral Roberts (Coronet Magazine, 1955)
1955, Coronet Magazine, Faith, Recent Articles

The Rise of Oral Roberts
(Coronet Magazine, 1955)

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The editors at Coronet recognized that Oral Roberts was not your average minister, who was simply contented to preside over thirty full pews every week; they labeled him a businessman-preacher and subtly pointed out that the man’s detractors were many and his flashy attire unseemly for a member of clergy:


God doesn’t run a breadline…I make no apology for buying the best we can afford. The old idea that religious people should be poor is nonsense.

Paul Laurence Dunbar NY TIMES ARTICLE 1897 | Review of Lyrics of Lowly Life by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1897 | Literary Editor William Dean Howells on Paul Dunbar
1897, African-American History, Recent Articles, The New York Times

‘A Negro Poet”
(NY Times, 1897)

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Here is the NY Times review of Lyrics of Lowly Life (1897) by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872 – 1906), who was a distinguished African-American poet, novelist, and playwright of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. If Helen had the face that launched a thousand ships, then Dunbar had the poetry to launch at least twenty thousand schools – for it seems that is about how many there are named for him.

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End of the Winter War April 1940
1940, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles, The Winter War

‘What the Finns Won”
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)

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We suppose debate will go on for years about whether the Finns or the Russians won their 105-day war of late 1939 and early 1940. We think the Finns won all the phases of the war except those included in the peace treaty – and that the treaty was a minor matter in the long view of it all…As for the predictions that the Russians will be coming back in six months or so to gobble up the rest of Finland – we may easily be wrong, but we can’t picture the Russians tackling the Finns again for another thirty years.

Unpopular Jackie Kennedy | Downfall of Jackie Kennedy | Jackie Kennedy Entitled Aristocrat
1967, Jackie, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

Hating Jackie Kennedy
(Pageant Magazine, 1967)

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By the mid-1960s many Americans began to tire of the fact that Jackie Kennedy would not play the roll that they believed suitable for the former first lady of a slain president. Her halo’s fading luster seemed to grow duller every day and it wasn’t long before she was generally perceived as the mean girl. Journalist Leslie Valentine reported that the trashing of Mrs. Kennedy became so widespread by 1967 that no social gathering was complete without someone pointing out her shortcomings.

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Innocence of Mrs Mary Surratt | The Case for Mrs Surratt by Helen Jones Campbell | Judicial Murder of Mary Surratt
1943, Civil War History, Newsweek, Recent Articles

Was Mrs. Surratt Innocent?
(Newsweek Magazine, 1943)

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Here is the book review for The Case For Mrs. Surrattstyle=border:none (1945) by Helen Jones Campbell. The review narrates how the landlady who had the misfortune of renting a room to the Lincoln conspirators soon found herself swept up in the pervasive Confederate hatred that enveloped the capital city following the assassination. In no time at all she sat among the plotters in a military tribunal where she was quickly judged guilty and sentenced to hang. The book is still in print.


More on the assassination can be read here

Movie Extras in 1930s Hollywood | Campbell MacCulloch General Manager of Central Casting Corporation
1935, Extras, Liberty Magazine, Recent Articles

DON’T BECOME AN EXTRA
(Liberty Magazine, 1935)

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If you were planning to use your time machine to travel back to 1935 so you could work as a Hollywood extra – you might want to read this article about what a bad hand was dealt to that crowd back in the day. It was written by Campbell MacCulloch, General Manager of the Central Casting Corporation – and he knew all about it:

In Hollywood dwell some ten or twelve thousand misguided folk who cling tenaciously to a couple of really fantastic illusions…

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