Fulfilling FDR’s Dream: His Second Bill of Rights

Dec 31, 2019 | CCDC Blog, History

by Diane Ravitch, 12/31/19 I have engaged in a heated exchange off line with people who are upset about taxing billionaires. They feel sure that taxing the 1% or the .00025% is a slippery slope, and soon enough we will all pay taxes so high that we will have to give...

On this afternoon 156 years ago

Nov 19, 2019 | CCDC Blog, History

President Lincoln, often considered the greatest of all presidents, pronounced the Gettysburg Address in 1863 about 100 miles to our west. It is hard to tire, especially today, of reading his memorable, humane, and unifying words: Four score and seven years ago our...

"The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled..." --Frederick Douglass, in "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?", his 1852 oration in Rochester NY commemorating the 76th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.