All Posts Tagged With: "Dwight D. Eisenhower"
Doc of the Day: Dwight Eisenhower’s D-day order
On June 6, 1944, at a critical stage of World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower oversaw the launching of the world’s largest armada. An extraordinary flotilla of 176,000 men, 20,000 vehicles, and thousands of tons of stores and munitions left the shores of England and headed toward Normandy in France as part of the [...]
6Jun2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Michael J. O'Neal on the legacies of Harry Truman and George W. Bush
At last, we’ve put behind us years of a divisive presidency in the person of a man with thin qualifications for high office who admitted he had no foreign policy experience. For reasons entirely of ideology, he launched a war in a faraway country that posed no direct threat to the United States. The war [...]
18Mar2009 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Around the history blogosphere: October 31
Here are some recent posts related to primary source documents from other history blogs:
The American Presidents Blog on Eisenhower’s political TV ads on the famous LBJ “Daisy” ad
The Edge of the American West on the Lend-Lease Act
The History Channel on Martin Luther’s 95 theses
The Edge of the American West on the National Organization for Women’s [...]
Doc of the Day: Executive Order 10730
On September 24, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, thereby sending federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, where unruly crowds had prevented the desegregation of all-white Central High School. Not since the period of Reconstruction after the Civil War had federal troops gone to the South to maintain law and order. Many [...]
24Sep2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued
Chester Pach on Eisenhower and the Little Rock school crisis
Sometimes presidents take actions that surprise just about everybody, including themselves, and a good example is President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s decision fifty-one years ago to issue Executive Order 10730. Within hours after Eisenhower approved this document on September 24, 1957, U.S. Army troops arrived in Little Rock, Arkansas, to stop the violence that had prevented [...]
23Sep2008 | mdblogger | 1 comment | Continued
Scott A.G.M. Crawford on Eisenhower and Civil Rights
In the article I wrote about Dwight D. Eisenhower’s farewell address for Milestone Documents in American History, I made the observation that Eisenhower’s presidency saw “very limited progress with respect to civil rights.” A cautionary tale: this comment needs revisiting. Last Christmas I visited Little Rock, Arkansas, and was exposed to the saga of what [...]
28Jul2008 | mdblogger | 0 comments | Continued