Cuban Missile Crisis
The Real End of the Cuban Missile Crisis
For some of us the memory of the Cuban Missile Crisis is found only in the back of textbooks or movie theater screens, placed before Woodstock but after McCarthyism in the mind’s historical timeline. For others, the memory of those long, tense, days in October feel far more real than any documentary or Kevin Costner movie. And like any […]
JFK Library goes digital
The John F. Kennedy presidential archive goes digital today. It’s a huge archive of everything that passed across the president’s desk, including: the White House photo collection, all the Kennedy audio and video, and Kennedy family home movies. The holdings will no longer be filtered through journalists or historians, instead allowing the public first-hand access […]