Taking history's forks

Article Abstract:

Several key historical events are viewed in light of how history would have changed had the key historical figures made different decisions or been subject to different circumstances. Topics include the speech Pres Richard Nixon would have given the had the first space flight to the moon failed, how the right for women to vote may have changed had a Tennessee representative not received a note from his mother, and how presidential history might have changed had Gen Ulysses S. Grant chosen to accompany Abraham Lincoln to the Ford Theater on the night Lincoln was assassinated.

Analysis, Behavior, Presidents, Presidents (Government), Suffrage, Voting rights, Speeches, lectures and essays, Grant, Ulysses S.

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Moon germs: a history of NASA's lunar receiving laboratory

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Issues concerning the building of a Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL), in which to quarantine astronauts returning from the first moon mission, are examined. Topics include cautions against possibilities that astronauts could return with deadly germs, the quarantining of the spacecraft and any materials collected on the moon, and the political and administrative mechanics of establishing the LRL.

Discovery and exploration, Space flight, Moon, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moon exploration, Space flight to the moon, Lunar flights

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Pieces of history: a 1947 Truman diary is discovered

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The discovery of Harry S. Truman's diary reveals his private thoughts on a variety of issues that includes his advice to Dwight Eisenhower, the Jews and Palestine, and his motherEs funeral. He kept diaries in the White House, sent letters to family and friends and wrote many letters.

Records and correspondence, Truman, Harry S., President of the United States

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