Sublime

“war to the death against all Puerto Ricans.”

For his bold judicial opinion he received bushels of letters threatening to kill him and telling him he’d burn in hell for eternity. Kramer had to live with twenty-four-hour police protection and wear a bulletproof vest under his judicial robes. He also strapped on a gun.41

With its publication Wilson became, as Frederick Jackson Turner saw it, “the first southern scholar of adequate training and power who has dealt with American history as a whole.” Other reviewers shared Turner’s admiration for Wilson’s history, yet they couldn’t help but notice the author’s fondness for the Ku Klux Klan, an organization whose

Major Margaret Witt, air force nurse and poster girl, discharged under Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell: the judge who ordered her reinstated declared, “There is no evidence that wounded troops care about the sexual orientation of the flight nurse or medical technicians tending to their wounds.”

Stephens was the president of the railroad, which was a wholly American-owned stock company with its main office in the old Tontine Building on Wall Street. The capitalization was a million dollars.

In 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, one of the only bars for LGTBQ people in New York where dancing was allowed, the patrons rebelled. They sang “We Shall Overcome,” and a crowd of around 150 gathered to see what was happening. When an officer shoved a patron, she shoved back. The crowd booed, and a scuffle broke out. When she was struck