Archive: March 2023 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Ryan Reft; (Year) 2023; (Month) March

Sign reading "Save Our Republic: Impeach Earl Warren" with American flag in corner

Made at the Library: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right

March 14, 2023

Join historian Ryan Reft and senior archives specialist Connie Cartledge at noon on Thursday, March 23, as they discuss the intersection of mid-century politics, anti-communism, and Manuscript Division collections with Matthew Dallek, author of the new book Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right.

Posted in: Events, Politics

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Gideon v. Wainwright at 60: Anthony Lewis, Clarence Gideon, and America’s Public Defenders

March 9, 2023

Posted by: Ryan Reft

This March marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, which guaranteed indigent defendants the right to counsel, but as seen through the Anthony Lewis Papers and his influential book, Gideon’s Trumpet, the results have been mixed at best.

Posted in: Law

Refined by: (Author) Ryan Reft; (Year) 2023; (Month) March