Whatever It Is, I’m Against It

“Lithuanian sources” (which seems to mean one railroad engineer, but if that isn’t a good enough source for a front page above the fold sto...

The French are incensed that the new German constitution includes provisions for Austrian representation in the Reichstag, should it be an...

Monroe Trotter, “Boston negro” of the National Equal Rights League, appears before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and demands a ra...

Rear Admiral Mark Bristol, commander of the US naval forces in Turkey, tells Turkey to stop massacring the Armenians. When Turkey complain...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes on party lines to strip the peace treaty of US obligations to participate in European matters...

Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to extend the wartime control/ban on immigration for a year after the end of the war (whenever that might be)...

The 8th Cavalry leaves Mexico, the trail of the bandit-kidnappers washed out by rain. It’s now confirmed that they entered Mexico right af...

Headline of the Day -100:  Obviously Bolshevik Russia and the IWW are behind any move for self-determination by oppressed peoples...

Friedrich Ebert is sworn in as German Reichspräsident under the new Weimar Constitution. He will be succeeded in that office by Field Mars...

Headline of the Day -100:  The US Cavalry troops in Mexico kill four bandits. The only casualty on the US side is a cactus-relat...

Japan will replace the military administration it has used to run Korea since conquering and annexing it with a civilian one and says it w...

Troops from the 8th Cavalry cross into Mexico to look for the two captured aviators. Who were in the process of being released anyway, if ...

Headline of the Day -100:  The Supreme Council of the Peace Conference won’t respond to Archduke Joseph’s request that he be rec...

The National Woman’s Party is putting pressure on governors and legislatures to hold special sessions to speed up ratification of the wome...

Hungary: Archduke Joseph appoints a new cabinet. The Socialists refuse to join, so it’s just a bunch of “old reactionaries,” and the Enten...

Woodrow Wilson tells senators that if they fuck up the peace treaty, the US will have to go “hat in hand” to beg Germany for bilateral ter...

Henry Ford’s libel suit against the Chicago Tribune reaches its conclusion, after three long months: he is awarded damages of 6¢ (and cost...

The Justice Dept takes action against the “Cement Trust,” 19 cement companies that conspired to drive up the price of cement by 2 or 3 tim...

Headline of the Day -100:  Even while the NYT ’s usual “reliable” sources reliably predict the imminent reliable downfall of Bols...

Andrew Carnegie, steel tycoon and library nerd, once the richest man in America, dies at 83. Woodrow Wilson rejects the Senate’s demand...