Jennifer Ferris

Most Recent Articles by Jennifer Ferris

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  Happy Birthday, Eugene Debs, Labor Leader
  Eugene V. Debs spearheaded labor movements, led the American Socialist Party and is remembered today for being an agitator who never shied from passionately expressing his opinions—even when it led to his arrest.
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  Happy Birthday, Walter Cronkite, CBS News Anchor
  To his colleagues, he was “Old Iron Pants,” and to everyone else, he was “The Most Trusted Man in America.” For more than half a century, CBS newsman Walter Cronkite reported, and to a certain extent, made the news, announcing Kennedy’s assassination and the first steps on the moon as well as influencing a more rapid end to the Vietnam War.
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  Happy Birthday, Marie Antoinette, Former Queen of France
  The most beautiful daughter of the Austrian emperor, Marie Antoinette was guaranteed a life of privilege. But as the teen bride of French King Louis XVI, her free spending, decadent lifestyle angered the working class, who saw her as the embodiment of all that was wrong with the monarchy.
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  Happy Birthday, Stephen Crane, Author of “The Red Badge of Courage”
  Although he is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, Stephen Crane’s life and career were cut short before his 30th birthday. His books, essays and poems—the best known of which was “The Red Badge of Courage”—remain among the most revered and referenced today.
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  Happy Birthday, Romualdo Pacheco, California's First Latino Governor
  Romualdo Pacheco, born October 31, 1831, was the first Hispanic representative of a state in Congress and to date, California’s only Latino governor.