All Posts Tagged With: "Barack Obama"
Ron Briley on the Weather Manifesto
Forty years ago, the Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) drafted a statement to be employed in a factional dispute with the Maoist Progressive Labor (PL) wing of the organization. At the June 1969 Chicago convention of SDS, the RYM group, now known as the Weathermen, expelled the [...]
23Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
In the News: Barack Obama's speech at Lincoln dinner
[Editor's note: Below is a transcript of President Barack Obama's speech at a dinner in Springfield, Illinois, on February 12, 2009, honoring Abraham Lincoln.]
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you very much. Well, it is wonderful to be back in Springfield, and I see so many familiar faces — to Mr. Hart, to Marilyn, to my Secretary of [...]
In the News: Obama executive orders on Guantanamo and interrogation techniques
[Editor's note: Below are the executive orders that President Barack Obama issued on January 22, 2009, with regard to the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and ensuring lawful interrogations of prisoners.]
EXECUTIVE ORDER — REVIEW AND DISPOSITION OF INDIVIDUALS DETAINED AT THE GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE AND CLOSURE OF DETENTION FACILITIES
By the authority [...]
Historians' roundup: Barack Obama's inaugural address
[Editor's note: We invited some of the historians who have worked on our Milestone Documents encyclopedias to share their opinions about Barack Obama's inaugural address. Below are their comments.]
Joan E. Cashin
Ohio State University
President Obama’s inaugural speech was sober, honest, and serious–appropriate for the tremendous problems the country faces. It was a speech by a mature [...]
In the News: Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address
January 20, 2009
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.
I thank President Bush for his service to our nation as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.
Forty-four Americans have now [...]
Barry Alfonso on the evolution of political oratory
With the inaugural address of the next president about to be delivered, I can’t help but reflect upon political oratory in general and the old fashioned kind in particular. I don’t mean the sort of folksy speeches Ronald Reagan used to give or even the reassuring talks Franklin D. Roosevelt soothed Depression-era America with. I [...]
29Dec2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
In the News: Indictment of Rod Blagojevich
The indictment of Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges has dominated the news the past two weeks. Blagojevich is charged with attempting to sell the Senate seat of president-elect Barack Obama. At a news conference on December 9, Patrick Fitzgerald, United States attorney general for the Northern District of Illinois, announced the arrest of [...]
19Dec2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Joan E. Cashin on Obama and Lincoln
This year is rich with historical milestones. The U.S. has elected its first African American president, which is significant, to say the least. Next year we observe the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in Kentucky in 1809, and this year marks the 150th anniversary of the Lincoln-Douglas debates during the Illinois Senate race.
President-elect [...]
Paul Finkelman on the election of Barack Obama
[Portions of this blog appeared on Huffington Post and the African American Studies Center of Oxford University Press and are published here with permission of OUP.]
Very few presidential elections change America. The elections of 1800, 1828, 1860, and 1932 come to mind as the most obvious examples of elections that truly transformed the nation. They [...]
In the News: Barack Obama's victory speech
November 4, 2008
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched around [...]
