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June 12, 2023
The US War on Currants and Gooseberries
Marvin Pitts, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University, estimates that 99.9% of Americans have never tasted a blackcurrant. The reason? For nearly a century the US government conducted a war on currants and gooseberries.
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The Great Sedition Trial of 1944
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.
Pearl Harbor December 5. 1941
Absent a few coincidences, and "fortunate blunders" on December 5, 1941 the history of December 7th could have different.
