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books

July 4, 2024

Gerald McCarthy: Haunted Marine, VVAW Activist, College Professor

Jan Barry Portside

There were no words for what to say about the war for 19-year-old combat vets coming home in 1967. Words like post-traumatic stress, survivor guilt did not exist. This book reveals the inner world of many war veterans that home folks haven’t a clue.

August 28, 2023

This Week in People’s History, Aug. 28 – Sept. 5

Portside

Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans wading through waist-deep floodwater

Deadly weather in 2005. KKK run out of town in 1923. FBI informers mess up in 1973. The telephone industry discovers women workers in 1878. TV news is ready for prime time in 1963. Frederick Douglass frees himself in 1838. Ethnic cleansing in 1838.

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