1880
People were all about appearances, whether they could afford it or not.
1885
Henry Ward Beecher was an early proponent of the notion that the Bible and evolution could both be true.
1890
Unfairly administered "literacy tests" were given in an attempt to exclude blacks from the voting process.
1910
Based on a statement in the text, something like "President Taft pulled to the right while former
president Roosevelt and other Republican leaders pulled to the left."
1911
Christian Scientists denied the existence of the physical world.
1930
Alvin Kelly was the original "flagpole sitter."
(Male character in cartoon is based on Burr Shafer's J. Wesley Smith.)
1938
FDR's alphabet soup.
1954
Senator McCarthy's hearings to identify communists among us sounded like a witch hunt to me.
1973
No meaning here. Just a silly limerick.
1975
This one must have been based on something the professor said in class, because he called it
"a personal dig at the teacher."
Did I mention that said teacher was my father?
