Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The 15th Amendment, enacted by zealous Reconstructionists, was indeed a historic cornerstone. It gave Congress the power to enforce equal voting rights through legislation, in effect overriding Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution, which leaves voting qualifications entirely up to the states. But the legislation that Congress devised was...
IN the first issue, 42 years ago this month, TIME noted that the 25th annual convention of the Negro National Educational Congress was about to begin in Washington. It is rather a matter of pride with us that since that first story, we have devoted intense effort to studying, reporting...
Or rather, killings. In a world without television, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks supplied nightmare fodder to generations of Londoners, with its penumbral acres of dismemberments, garrotings, stabbings, shootings and dungeon doings. After visiting Mme. Tussaud's while on European assignment as a U.S. information officer, Dennis decided that...
In Boston, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities has rummaged through the crumbling brick of a house by Early American Architect Charles Bulfinch to retrieve choice examples of historic woodwork. A well-known Boston psychiatrist cases demolition sites on Sundays, is now the proud possessor of seven...
Last Stand. The defeat of the Armada is the historic climax of Hakluyt's saga; but the literary climax is attained in Sir Walter Raleigh's recreation of the bloodiest sea battle of the age: the last stand of the Revenge.