Saturday morning cartoons represented freedom from school, and responsibilities. They represented the innocence of youth. We laughed, we cheered, we absorbed basic lessons about friendship, and heroism, and right and wrong. And yet, it seems, it was another quaint ritual of a forgotten time, slowly being relegated to forgotten history.
Three classic episodes of The History Guy about how the Christmas season survives even tragedy.
The “Great Sedition Trial” uncovered shocking connections at the time with the German reich that we were fighting, and challenged the idea that the nation was of a single mind during the war. It also challenged exactly how far the national commitment to freedom of speech and opinion reached, especially in extraordinary times.