Author: Aidan Campbell

• How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History

  by Nina Silber Tensions have been brewing at George Washington High School in San Francisco over a series of murals that tell a less than heroic story about America’s first…

• Secretary-General’s remarks to General Assembly on the 100th Anniversary of the International Labour Organization [as delivered]

  10 April 2019 A century ago – as the rubble from the First World War still smouldered – global leaders came together in Versailles and affirmed a principle that echoes…

• FDR dies at 63, April 12, 1945

  By ANDREW GLASS 04/12/2019 12:01 AM EDT On this day in 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage at his Warm Springs, Ga. retreat. He was 63. Roosevelt’s…

• Whooping Cough Killed 6,000 Kids a Year Before These Ex-Teachers Created a Vaccine

  by NATALIE ZARRELLI, APR 16, 2019 As the Great Depression raged, scientists Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering developed the first effective pertussis vaccine on a shoestring budget. After a long…

• Philly’s Marian Anderson Is Getting Some Long-Overdue Love

  Eighty years ago this month, the world’s most famous singer became a civil rights icon.

• Marian Anderson should move us to lift every voice and fight U.S. prejudice

  By L.A. PARKER Apr 8, 2019 As the curtain closes on Boheme NJ’s production of Guiseppe Verdi’s “Aida” with the final notes, images and sounds still fresh, this column and…