By Jerry L. Wallace The clock in the U.S. House Chamber pointed to half past noon.[1] Congress had assembled for a rare joint session. Standing at the clerk’s desk in […]
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What Killers of the Flower Moon Gets Right—and Wrong—About Coolidge
October 26, 2023
By Jed Donahue image courtesy of Apple Studios It’s not often that Calvin Coolidge appears as a character in a Hollywood blockbuster. But that’s what he does—briefly—in Martin Scorsese’s new […]
Read MoreA Supreme Court Justice’s Private Views of Coolidge
October 11, 2023
By John William Sullivan One of President Calvin Coolidge’s harshest critics—in private, at least—was Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis. Both men had made their names in Massachusetts: Brandeis as […]
Read MoreA Man ‘Who Walked with God’: Garman’s Impact on Coolidge
September 27, 2023
By Marisol Balderas, Coolidge intern Among the most important lessons Calvin Coolidge took away from Professor Charles Garman was the importance of public service. Garman, who taught Coolidge […]
Read MoreResponsibility of America
September 21, 2023
Date: June 6, 1924 Location: Washington, District of Columbia It would not be easy to arrange an occasion more calculated to appeal strongly to thoughtful and serious-minded Americans than this […]
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