The case of the whistleblower complaint about the Goodrich company falsifying test results for the brakes for a new Air Force attack plane has generally been presented as a morality play “there is the virtuous hero, the corrupt and evil corporate villains." But is the story more complex than that?
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.