Five House Democrats on Tuesday introduced legislation to posthumously award the Congressional Gold Medal to Americans who aided or rescued Jews during the Holocaust. Led by Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), the bill’s honorees would include Eleanor Roosevelt; Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury; Harold Ickes, former U.S. Secretary of the Interior; and
In “Against the World,” the historian Tara Zahra examines the promise of liberal internationalism in its early days and the resentments and suffering it continues to incite.
An account by anarchist and union organizer Rose Pesotta of the 1936 Akron rubberworkers strike, which utilized the sit-down tactic. From the book Bread Upon the Waters.
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