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Mobilizing for the March

8/31/2016

In anticipation of the March on Washington, 6,000 policemen, firemen, and soldiers were mobilized, and 4,000 additional soldiers were moved to nearby military bases.

William P. Jones, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013), 176.

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Jackson's Slave Holding

8/24/2016

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Andrew Jackson unapologetically owned about 150 slaves and freed none of them upon his death.

Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House (New York: Random House, 2008), 303.

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Daily Death in Andersonville

8/17/2016

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Due to the horrible conditions at the Confederate’s military prison known as Andersonville, during the summer of 1864, after only four month in existence over 100 Union prisoners died per day.

Catherine Gourley, The Horrors of Andersonville: Life and Death Inside a Civil War Prison (Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books, 2010), 60.

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Taft's Vacation Timetable

8/10/2016

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When the New York Times asked President William Howard Taft, “How long should a man’s vacation be?” he said two to three months.

Thomas J. Schlereth, Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), 213-14.

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Ike Pondered Wiping Out the Soviets

8/3/2016

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After the Soviet Union tested its first thermonuclear-like bomb in August of 1953, the meeting minutes of a National Security Council meeting report President Dwight Eisenhower as thinking that “we should presently have to really face the question of whether or not we would have to throw everything at once against the enemy.”

Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (New York: Doubleday, 2007), 85.

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Mobilizing for the March

Jackson's Slave Holding

Daily Death in Andersonville

Taft's Vacation Timetable

Ike Pondered Wiping Out the Soviets

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