The Almanac

Today in history—and how The Nation covered it.

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Executed

“Abroad this execution will be thrown in our faces for a long time to come.”

Jun 19, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

I.F. Stone

June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies June 18, 1989: I.F. Stone Dies

“He combined the meat-and-potatoes moxie of a police reporter, the instinct for precision of a scholar, the question-phrasing skill of a Socrates...and the political philosophy of ...

Jun 18, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

Joyce Carol Oates

June 16, 1938: Joyce Carol Oates Is Born June 16, 1938: Joyce Carol Oates Is Born

"Oates believes strongly in the authority of the individual’s experience of reality."

Jun 16, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

Slocum sinking

June 15, 1904: The General Slocum, a Passenger Steamship, Sinks in the East River, Killing Over One Thousand June 15, 1904: The General Slocum, a Passenger Steamship, Sinks in the East River, Killing Over One Thousand

"The tragedy strain[s] the compassion of the mere reader to the point of numbness."

Jun 15, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

June 13, 1971: ‘The New York Times’ Publishes the Pentagon Papers

June 13, 1971: ‘The New York Times’ Publishes the Pentagon Papers June 13, 1971: ‘The New York Times’ Publishes the Pentagon Papers

The Nation, which had covered American involvement in Vietnam critically since the early 1950s, may have been a touch peeved at the credit The New York Times and The Washington Pos…

Jun 13, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

Fall of France

June 14, 1940: German Troops Occupy Paris June 14, 1940: German Troops Occupy Paris

The Nation had long urged American intervention in the European war against fascism and responded to the Nazi occupation of Paris with a call to arms: an editorial by editor and pu…

Jun 12, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

O.J. Simpson trial

June 12, 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson—O.J.’s Ex-Wife—and Ronald Goldman Are Murdered in Los Angeles June 12, 1994: Nicole Brown Simpson—O.J.’s Ex-Wife—and Ronald Goldman Are Murdered in Los Angeles

"The public airing of the Simpson trial is being used to divert political attention from some very great divisions rending this nation."

Jun 12, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

June 11, 1967: The Six-Day War Ends in Israeli Victory, and Occupation

June 11, 1967: The Six-Day War Ends in Israeli Victory, and Occupation June 11, 1967: The Six-Day War Ends in Israeli Victory, and Occupation

"Israelis have no desire to repeat the errors of Western Europe’s 19th-century imperial expansionism."

Jun 11, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

June 10, 2007: The Series Finale of ‘The Sopranos’ Airs on HBO

June 10, 2007: The Series Finale of ‘The Sopranos’ Airs on HBO June 10, 2007: The Series Finale of ‘The Sopranos’ Airs on HBO

"The murderous mobster is the predatory lust and aggression in all of us," Ellen Willis wrote in The Nation in 2001.

Jun 10, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

McCarthy Hearing

June 9, 1954: The Army-McCarthy Hearings Climax With a Lawyer’s Pointed Question June 9, 1954: The Army-McCarthy Hearings Climax With a Lawyer’s Pointed Question

"These hearings can in no sense be interpreted as weakening the hold of McCarthyism, or anti-democracy, in the United States."

Jun 9, 2015 / Richard Kreitner and The Almanac

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