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THE TRIAL OF JOHN
THE CONSTITUTIONAL RISING BY
PETER ZENGER AND
CONVENTION OF 1787
FALLING: GEORGE
THE BIRTH OF
On May 15, 1776, the
WASHINGTON AND
FREEDOM OF THE
convention meeting in
THE CONCEPT OF A
PRESS
Williamsburg and acting
LIMITED
No country values free
as Virginia’s de facto
PRESIDENCY
expression more highly
governing body instructed In 1797, King George
than does the United
that colony’s delegates at
III of England, the
States, and no case in
the Continental Congress
British king who had
American history stands
in Philadelphia to
been George Washington’s
as a greater landmark on introduce a resolution
enemy during the U.S.
the road to protection for
declaring “the united
Revolutionary War, ap-
freedom of the press than
colonies free and
praised his former foe’s
the trial of a German
independent
resignation from
immigrant printer
States.”
the presidency
named John
of the United
Peter Zenger.
States in
March.
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VICTORY OF THE
THE INTERSTATE
COMMON SCHOOL
THE SHERMAN
HIGHWAY SYSTEM,
MOVEMENT: A
ANTI-TRUST ACT
1939-1991
TURNING POINT
OF 1890
In April 1939,
IN AMERICAN
In 1890, the United
executives of the General
EDUCATIONAL
States pioneered
Motors Corporation
HISTORY
competition law and
inaugurated a major
Americans today count
signifi cantly strengthened exhibit at the New York
on their public schools to
the future of free markets World’s Fair. Named
be free of expense,
in the American system
“Futurama”– a word
open to all, and devoid
by adopting a
intended to signify a
of religious sectarianism.
new federal statute: the
panorama of the future
Although families
Sherman Anti-
– the General Motors’
exhibit immediately
are permitted to
Trust Act.
became the fair’s
enroll their
most popular
children
attraction.
in private
schools at their own
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Staff
Executive Editor—
George Clack
THE GI BILL OF
THE MARSHALL
BROWN V. BOARD OF
Editor—
RIGHTS
PLAN: A
EDUCATION: THE
Paul Malamud
Art Direction/ Design—
The GI Bill of Rights,
STRATEGY THAT
LAW, THE LEGACY
Thaddeus A. Miksinski, Jr.
offi cially known as
WORKED
When the Negro writer
Photo Research—
the Servicemen’s Read-
It didn’t start as a plan,
Ralph Ellison
Maggie Sliker
justment Act of 1944,
and some of the
learned of the Supreme
Contributing Editor—
was signed into
veterans said it never
Court’s Brown v. Board
Michael Jay Friedman
law on June 22, 1944,
did become a plan.
Reference Specialists—
of Education decision
by President
Its own second-in-
Eunhwa Choe
in May 1954, he
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
command, Harlan
Mary Ann Gamble
exclaimed to a friend,
At the time, its passage
Anita Green
Cleveland, called it “a
“What a wonderful
through Congress was
Linda Johnson
series of improvisa-
world of
largely unheralded,
Lynne Scheib
tions…a continuous
possibilities are
Kathy Spiegel
in part because
international
unfolded for the
Joan Taylor
the Normandy
happening.”
children!”
invasion was
The opinions expressed
under way;
in these essays are
those of the authors,
not necessarily those of the
State Department
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or the U.S. government.
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THE RIGHT TO
THE IMMIGRATION
LEGAL COUNSEL:
ACT OF 1965:
THE GIDEON V.
INTENDED AND
WAINWRIGHT
UNINTENDED
DECISION
CONSEQUENCES
Until Clarence Earl
When Lyndon Johnson
Gideon mailed his
signed the Immigration
envelope to the United
Act of 1965 at the
States Supreme Court,
foot of the Statue of
there was nothing
Liberty on October 3
about him to suggest
of that year, he stressed
that he would become a
the law’s symbolic impor-
celebrated symbol
tance over all:
of fairness in
American
justice.
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