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  When conservatives went to war over SF post office murals

  By Gary Kamiya May 31, 2019 In recent years, most of the attacks on public art in San Francisco have come from the left — the fight to remove from Civic…

• Senator Grassley says the New Deal didn’t work; historians have other ideas

  Republished from HistoryChecked with permission of Allen Mikaelian Sen. Charles Grassley: “The New Deal in the 1930s didn’t work. It didn’t get us out of the Great Depression” I would like…

• An Earlier Age When the United States Kept Immigrants Out

  By Anna Altman April 24, 2019 [BOOK REVIEW] THE UNWANTED  America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between By Michael Dobbs On the morning of Nov. 10, 1938, Hedy Wachenheimer rode…

• 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…