CHAPTER 1, Section D of Freud’s Interpretation of Dreams That a dream fades away in the morning is proverbial. It is, indeed, possible to recall it. For we know the dream, of course, only by recalling it after waking; but we very often believe that we remember it incompletely, that during the night there was more of it than we remember. We may observe how the memory of a dream which in the morning was still vivid fades in the course of the day, leaving only a few trifling remnants. We are often aware that we have been dreaming, but we do not know of what we have dreamed; and…

With New TV Doc Deadline Actor-director Robert Redford will revisit the Watergate scandal, the subject of his 1976 film “All The President’s Men,” with a retrospective documentary from his new company Sundance Productions, reports Deadline.com. The two-hour documentary, “All The President’s Men Revisited,” will be broadcast on Discovery Channel worldwide. The project marks the 40th anniversary of the landmark conspiracy that took down the administration of President Richard M. Nixon. Redford, who played Bob Woodward in “All the President’s Men” opposite Dustin Hoffman as Carl Bernstein, will narrate the documentary. The 1976 feature film was directed by Alan J. Pakula. In a statement, Redford said: “Unique and artful stories have…

Jun 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was…

Along the U.S.-Canadian Border, Skirmishes Persist Over War of 1812 200 Years Later, Both Sides Feel Like Winners; Dueling Celebrations at Forts By ALISTAIR MACDONALD Read Story Online at the WSJ FORT GEORGE, Ontario—As Canadian Dan Laroche, dressed as a British redcoat, fired a musket and regaled his audience here with tales of panicked American surrender, Marie DeVita, from Brooklyn, N.Y., turned to friends with a question: “Wait a minute, didn’t we win the War of 1812?” Two hundred years ago Monday, the U.S. officially declared war on Britain, starting a two-year conflict that became known as the War of 1812. Two centuries on, skirmishes continue across the Niagara River…

Facts: It gave America ‘The Star Spangled Banner The day after the Senate followed the House of Representatives in voting to declare war against Great Britain, President James Madison signs the declaration into law–and the War of 1812 begins, Jun 18, 1812 . The American war declaration, opposed by a sizable minority in Congress, had been called in response to the British economic blockade of France, the induction of American seaman into the British Royal Navy against their will, and the British support of hostile Indian tribes along the Great Lakes frontier. A faction of Congress known as the “War Hawks” had been advocating war with Britain for several years…

(CNN) — 40 years later, remembering Watergate scandal’s ‘Deep Throat’ By the CNN Wire Staff updated 8:13 PM EDT, Fri June 15, 2012Forty years ago this Sunday, the Watergate break-in began the downward spiral of the Richard M. Nixon administration, ending with the disgraced president’s resignation a little more than two years later. On the night of June 17, 1972, the Washington hotel served as a base for an illegal break-in by operatives of the Nixon re-election campaign at the offices of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate office building next door. Five burglars were arrested. Rookie Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein used leaked information…

The Magna Carta display in the Crypt of the United States Capitol features a replica of the English document whose principles underlie much of the Constitution of the United States. Magna Carta (Latin for “Great Charter”) was sealed by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor Castle, on June 15, 1215, after the king was forced by his barons to agree to the charter’s contents. Dissatisfied with the king’s capricious rule, the noblemen had united to limit his powers. Magna Carta forbade arbitrary arrest and imprisonment, established the rights to a fair trial and to security of property, and guaranteed that the nation’s government was itself subject to the…