Posts Tagged ‘history’

GLBT History Month

October 9th, 2009 by Sarah Laleman Ward

With the fight for marriage equality raging on across the U.S., and the recent push in Washington to lift the […]

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Remembering 9/11

September 11th, 2009 by Sarah Laleman Ward

How much difference does a day make? Here are the headlines from the New York Times on September 11, 2001:

9 11 2001And […]

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89 years ago today….

August 26th, 2009 by Sarah Laleman Ward

…women were granted the right to vote by the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Find out more information about Women’s […]

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Repeal Day

December 9th, 2008 by Sarah Laleman Ward


Headline from The New York Times, December 5, 1933

December 5, 2008, marks the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the […]

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On this day in history…

December 1st, 2008 by Sarah Laleman Ward

…things were pretty much the same.  Many of the same issues that appear in newspapers and online these days were […]

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