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Yes! Same-Sex Marriage and History-Making in Ireland

On May 24, 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to codify marriage equality through a popular vote. Significantly, the popular vote enacted a constitutional amendment, adding protection for two adult’s right to marry regardless of sex or gender. In a country that only just decriminalized same-sex sex Read more…

By Averill Earls, 2 years1 year ago
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1968: A Tumultuous American Year

1968 was an extremely turbulent and painful year in the United States of America. The Vietnam War was in full swing, as well as the protest movement against it. Gallup Poll results in February of 1968 showed that fully half of the American populace disapproved of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 2 years1 year ago
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Race, Politics, and Chaos in the Capitol: The Election of 1876

The consequences of 1876 were enormous. To end the the election limbo, Democratic and Republican politicians worked out a shadowy deal in which Rutherford Hayes was declared the president (by one electoral vote!) and the Republicans agreed to end Reconstruction in the former Confederacy. The results of the “Compromise of Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years2 days ago
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The Papal Election of 1492: Rodrigo Borgia and the Conclave that Made him Pope Alexander VI

On the morning of August 11, 1492, Rodrigo Borgia was elected Pope, taking the name Alexander VI and yelling “I am Pope! I am Pope!” The throngs of Romans in the Piazza di San Pietro shared in his excitement. But for some, the Papal Election of 1492 seemed to indicate Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 2 years1 year ago
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