Just in case you're not big on history, here's what they're talking about:
Ben Franklin - founding father, smart guy
Twain - one of the best authors of all time, wrote Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer
Poe - poet, author, wrote "The Telltale Heart," "The Raven" and many other classics
Walt Whitman - poet, wrote "Walden"
Klu Klux Klan - racist terrorist group in the south that shoots and lynches minorities and civil rights sympathisers
Haymarket Riot - riot that broke out during the struggle for workers rights
Great Depression - economic crisis of the 30s, caused mass unemployment and poverty
Joe McCarthy - senator in the 1950s, fueled communist scare by accusing many people in the government and entertainment industry of being communists or communists sympathisers
Vietnam - long, pointless, terrible and losing war that brought huge losses on both sides and left many Americans with permanent emotional and physical damage
Just in case you're not big on history, here's what they're talking about:
Ben Franklin - founding father, smart guy Twain - one of the best authors of all time, wrote Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Poe - poet, author, wrote "The Telltale Heart," "The Raven" and many other classics Walt Whitman - poet, wrote "Walden" Klu Klux Klan - racist terrorist group in the south that shoots and lynches minorities and civil rights sympathisers Haymarket Riot - riot that broke out during the struggle for workers rights Great Depression - economic crisis of the 30s, caused mass unemployment and poverty Joe McCarthy - senator in the 1950s, fueled communist scare by accusing many people in the government and entertainment industry of being communists or communists sympathisers Vietnam - long, pointless, terrible and losing war that brought huge losses on both sides and left many Americans with permanent emotional and physical damage