Tag: John F. Kennedy
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When LL Cool J Performed at the Clinton Inauguration

In Performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCBqZuBTfPI Even socially distanced in the time of coronavirus, the inauguration of Joe Biden proved a star-studded affair. Donald Trump suffered the indignity of a late withdrawal by Elton John, one of his favourite performers, and had to make do on the eve of his inauguration with Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down. Sam Moore of the soul duo Sam &...

Walter Reuther, Civil Rights, and the Presidential Election of 1960

Long Reads
In the days leading up to the 1960 presidential election, the Republican Party resounded with a familiar refrain: a vote for John F. Kennedy, the fresh-faced senator from Massachusetts, would leave labour leader Walter Reuther pulling the strings. Walter Reuther first became headline news in the spring of 1937, when as president of a local branch of the United Auto...

A Brief History of the Modern Man’s Hat

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In the final decade of the eighteenth century, stirred by the ideals of the French Revolution, the top hat replaced the tricorne as the vogue item of headwear for fashionable Europeans. Already popular in France where it would become part of the costume of the Incroyables, the first top hat in England has been credited to the Frenchman George...