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Archive: June 2017 (2 Posts)

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Symposium on Rights and Resistance: Civil Liberties During Wartime

Posted by: Jim Martin

On Thursday, June 8, the Manuscripts Division in association with the Law Library sponsored a symposium examining the effects of World War I on civil liberties in the United States. Mary Dudziak, of Emory University, provided a historical overview of how Woodrow Wilson went from being reelected as the peace candidate- to in April 1917, requesting a …

Ornate red and ivory wall decoration, with plaque and symbols

Canada Day, July 1. Sesquicentennial of Confederation.

Posted by: Jim Martin

  Saturday is the 150th anniversary of the organization of the Dominion of Canada. Confederation was a product of the work of the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864, the London Conference of 1866, and the passage of the British North America Act of 1867 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.  Four provinces comprised …