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c1312f138b23bd1df7498907378b3995 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169711 | Doris Kearns Goodwin's new book? | Doris Kearns Goodwin's new book?
From Amazon:
In this culmination of five decades of acclaimed studies in presidential history, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin offers an illuminating exploration of the early development, growth, and exercise of leadership.
Are leaders born or made? Where does ambitio... |
58caf91a101bd8b1d09191f1d037972a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169904 | Review of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House” | Review of Omarosa Manigault Newman’s “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House”
The provocative quotation following appears, alone, by itself, on the back jacket for everybody to read. You might as well: “He rambled. He spoke gibberish. He contradicted himself from one sentence to the next…. While watch... |
22efb3822716b242bb6a4941351a21a3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169991 | France’s Macron admits to military’s systematic use of torture in Algeria war | France’s Macron admits to military’s systematic use of torture in Algeria war
Related Link Is France Finally Reckoning With Its Brutal Past? (The Nation)
France will formally acknowledge the French military’s systemic use of torture in the Algerian War in the 1950s and 1960s, an unprecedented step forward in grappling ... |
715f81bdccbda517d9c8eb7f84a79e1d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170018 | A president’s secret letters to another woman that he never wanted public | A president’s secret letters to another woman that he never wanted public
Family and friends had known about the president’s intimate relationship with another woman for years, but whispers about their involvement were growing.
Woodrow Wilson was so worried that he asked his close adviser, Colonel Edward M. House, to m... |
4d4a956a2fe29e9b3126ca33ecb0e7d5 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170044 | Should Holocaust education be mandatory? This 9th-grader tries to make it so. | Should Holocaust education be mandatory? This 9th-grader tries to make it so.
Just 10 states have laws requiring grade school Holocaust education, but a Lake Oswego, Oregon, high school student is hoping to make her state the 11th.
On Sept. 25, Lakeridge High School student Claire Sarnowski and concentration camp survi... |
c33f9e22d41f5b4811f464945fd0b1b3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170104 | The Netherlands’ Surprise New Best Seller: Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’ | The Netherlands’ Surprise New Best Seller: Hitler's ‘Mein Kampf’
After being banned in the Netherlands for over 70 years, a new Dutch translation of “Mein Kampf” hit bookstores across the country in August.
It didn’t take long for Hitler’s political manifesto, written in 1924, to become a best seller and stir controver... |
f608f60f07ec8e854fe36d0c753cacd2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170132 | DNA evidence links Muhammad Ali to heroic slave, family says | DNA evidence links Muhammad Ali to heroic slave, family says
When Cassius Clay joined the Nation of Islam in 1964 and changed his name to Muhammad Ali he had a straightforward explanation. “Why should I keep my white slavemaster’s name visible and my black ancestors invisible, unknown, unhonored?” Ali asked.
Then, it w... |
350ca4c2bf118bf6446c775e8b7d4af3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170258 | With a House Takeover, Democrats Could Get Trump’s Tax Returns | With a House Takeover, Democrats Could Get Trump’s Tax Returns
Democrats, eyeing control of a powerful House tax-writing committee next year, are studying a century-old provision in the federal tax code that could give them access to President Trump’s long-sought tax returns and eventually the ability to make them publ... |
21be4064082d483a177c1b6089b656c5 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170287 | Trump Is Hitting the Midterm Campaign Trail Hard | Trump Is Hitting the Midterm Campaign Trail Hard
President Trump may not be running for reelection yet himself, but the days and weeks before the 2018 midterms have been busy for him nonetheless.
On Thursday night, Trump appeared in Missoula, Mont., to stump for Senate candidate Matt Rosendale and incumbent Rep. Greg G... |
c57d3d942ad3de8bfcafccb439323ace | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170299 | It’s time to make Election Day a holiday — in law and spirit | It’s time to make Election Day a holiday — in law and spirit
A century and a half before the Fourth of July had any particular significance, before Christmas was widely celebrated and long before Thanksgiving was a national holiday, there was Election Day.
From the earliest New England settlements, colonial elections w... |
227d2a0b5e3355c27e57c7946be23848 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170303 | Georgia election fight shows that black voter suppression, a southern tradition, still flourishes | Georgia election fight shows that black voter suppression, a southern tradition, still flourishes
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp has been sued for suppressing minority votes after an Associated Press investigation revealed a month before November’s midterm election that his office has not approved 5... |
ce7f2e69b87d2f9c617c1b9a74be9e0c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170308 | Should you worry about American democracy? Here’s what our new poll finds. | Should you worry about American democracy? Here’s what our new poll finds.
In just two weeks, Americans will vote in a midterm election that may well decide what party controls Congress and the legislative agenda for the next two years.
But as Americans head into this democratic exercise, some observers wonder whether ... |
43591448830e7821a074049d7acce12e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170310 | ‘Voter fraud’ is a myth that helps Republicans win, even when their policies aren’t popular | ‘Voter fraud’ is a myth that helps Republicans win, even when their policies aren’t popular
Related Link Tweet thread on voter thread by Heather Cox Richardson
Last weekend, President Trump tweeted a warning: “All levels of government and Law Enforcement are watching carefully for VOTER FRAUD, including during EARLY VO... |
831958328e87567cd6b0d4beec1d9023 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170319 | Review of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Leadership: In Turbulent Times” | Review of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Leadership: In Turbulent Times”
There was, once upon a time, an extremely popular genre of American biographical literature, going back at least to Parson Weems’s hagiography of George Washington, written with the explicit purpose of inspiring young boys (and only boys) to emulate the... |
ed87ccd64637ac76bc0a531db5ecc29b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170326 | 200 Years On, U.K. Hunts for Grave of Man Called World’s 1st Black Sports Star | 200 Years On, U.K. Hunts for Grave of Man Called World’s 1st Black Sports Star
Born a slave on Staten Island in 1763, Bill Richmond left America in 1777, never to return, and spent most of his life in Britain. But it was not until he was 40 years old that he began bare-knuckle boxing — a brutal sport that brought him f... |
3985ee0fe2d4228a7f7dfaef2ed2d6bf | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170407 | The first midterm ‘wave’ election that ended Republican control of government | The first midterm ‘wave’ election that ended Republican control of government
Days before congressional elections in 1874, the unthinkable suddenly seemed likely.
Republican dominance in Washington had been a fact of life since 1861, when Abraham Lincoln became president and the party held sway on Capitol Hill. With th... |
aec2b170d4774f1f388293b475d949f3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170413 | Wonder How Trump Will Handle Defeat? Don’t Bother with History. | Wonder How Trump Will Handle Defeat? Don’t Bother with History.
Okay, assume that $5 billion later, the midterms play out pretty much as everyone has expected for the past two years: Democrats take the House (and a clutch of governorships) and Republicans keep the Senate. What happens next? What happens when someone wh... |
b41e8cfbf1b31e8d5407234880426050 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170417 | Lyndon B. Johnson warned us about this | Lyndon B. Johnson warned us about this
Fifty-two years ago, President Lyndon Johnson warned the nation not to be seduced by proponents of a white backlash. Less than 48 hours before the 1966 midterms, just like today, LBJ saw in the electorate a noxious mix of white anger, hatred and resentment.
Back then, the white ba... |
a192ce4719f3a501524cc5cd6511980d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170422 | Why and How Donald Trump Flunks the Presidential Leadership Test | Why and How Donald Trump Flunks the Presidential Leadership Test
Now that the midterm elections are over there will be some reassessments of President Donald Trump. But whatever the verdict on his appeal to supporters or as a campaigner, he remains a failure as the leader of our country.
After he had completed almost a... |
a9f0afbccbf5a18dee58f07490483b09 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170426 | Former Belgian King Ordered to Give DNA for Paternity Test | Former Belgian King Ordered to Give DNA for Paternity Test
Delphine Boël grew up certain that she should be a princess. Now a court ruling and a DNA test could make it true.
Ms. Boël, 50, is a Belgian visual artist who claims that she was conceived during an extramarital affair between King Albert II of Belgium and Ms.... |
b6a7342c7931c21b15b56a372560da9a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170435 | The long, racist history of Florida’s now-repealed ban on felons voting | The long, racist history of Florida’s now-repealed ban on felons voting
In 1868, Florida’s white elites faced a threat every bit as grave as the Civil War that had ended in Confederate defeat three years earlier. Congress had just forced Florida to rewrite its constitution to allow every man the right to vote. But addi... |
9e88530a28580e2ea451e2af3592c373 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170441 | Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown | Crossing From Asia, the First Americans Rushed Into the Unknown
Nearly 11,000 years ago, a man died in what is now Nevada. Wrapped in a rabbit-skin blanket and reed mats, he was buried in a place called Spirit Cave.
Now scientists have recovered and analyzed his DNA, along with that of 70 other ancient people whose rem... |
7f7356d02417058a55631a2c860cb6b8 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170442 | The president's party just suffered a historically big wipeout during a strong economy | The president's party just suffered a historically big wipeout during a strong economy
President Trump argued in his post-election news conference that the Republican Party’s performance in the midterms defied history. An analysis by a JPMorgan economist suggests Trump is right — just not in the way he intends.
Measure... |
14cea837a7e55c861dcf6196621510ec | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170460 | Michael Beschloss says it’s time to stop celebrating Woodrow Wilson | Michael Beschloss says it’s time to stop celebrating Woodrow Wilson
On the Nov. 11 100th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War I, I’m celebrating the heroism of American warriors in Europe. Perhaps 116,000 of them died in that struggle. Their commander in chief, Woodrow Wilson, did not match the quality of the... |
bbd80c82eff94c958517d5c6762acb33 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170474 | Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots. | Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.
Be advised: “Democrats are in danger of going too far left in 2018.” So warn Republicans like Mitt Romney and ex-Democrats like Joe Lieberman and public personae as diverse as James Comey and Howard Schultz. In recent months, the pundit class has determine... |
a0f3a0c83a3db828e1af066d86a22e27 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170479 | Midterms and Troops: The Bid to Save a Party that Led to the Wounded Knee Massacre | Midterms and Troops: The Bid to Save a Party that Led to the Wounded Knee Massacre
On November 13, 1890, troops moved into South Dakota, a military movement that would result six weeks later in the Wounded Knee Massacre. The president sent soldiers to South Dakota, the largest movement of troops since the Civil War, in... |
bcb971a794aa31f959f752d8a23b913e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170485 | Who Gets the Last Word in a Disputed Senate Race? The Senate. | Who Gets the Last Word in a Disputed Senate Race? The Senate.
Amid the blur of lawsuits and noise around the recount in Florida’s Senate race lies a possible outcome that could be the ultimate twist: Senator Bill Nelson may not win the election, even if he wins the election.
That is because the Constitution says that t... |
0afee6fec304411d6a61a372b5bb7bbd | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170559 | Neanderthals and Humans Were No One Night Stand | Neanderthals and Humans Were No One Night Stand
Many people have a little bit of Neanderthal DNA. In recent years, this discovery has led scientists to conclude that early humans mated with Neanderthals over a single period of time. However, new research suggests that these groups mated with each other over multiple en... |
6a2fd8ec2d881c8f98ee7b1adf3e2a67 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170561 | Yale's David Blight explains why he was drawn to Frederick Douglass | Yale's David Blight explains why he was drawn to Frederick Douglass
A Conversation with David Blight, author of FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Q. You worked on this book for ten years, but first began researching Douglass as a PhD student. What initially inspired you to study Douglass? Did you always plan to write a biography of D... |
65aa4fa01bc11a1383cc3d8d526ab3ab | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170577 | The DNA Industry and the Disappearing Indian | The DNA Industry and the Disappearing Indian
Amid the barrage of racist, anti-immigrant, and other attacks launched by President Trump and his administration in recent months, a series of little noted steps have threatened Native American land rights and sovereignty. Such attacks have focused on tribal sovereignty, the... |
b0c6a67556b819a08ddc7c37be72f84e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170651 | Ancient strain of plague found in Sweden – and it could rewrite history | Ancient strain of plague found in Sweden – and it could rewrite history
A group of researchers from Sweden, Denmark and France analyzed skeletons from a tomb outside Falköping and found DNA traces of yersinia petis, the bacteria that cause plague.
The remains belonged to farmers who lived in the area around 4900 years ... |
d61e8941be9f6c1623086c7a673b73e1 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170676 | Now that the Bush Funeral Is Over with, We Need to Talk Honestly About the End of the Cold War | Now that the Bush Funeral Is Over with, We Need to Talk Honestly About the End of the Cold War
Germans stand on top of the Wall in the days before it was torn down - By Lear 21 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Related Link How People Are Remembering George HW Bush
Imagine a superpower founded on a revolution inspired... |
d381df04f2f023963c74f7e35f0ca3db | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170747 | So I Became a Historian—Now I’m Telling How It Worked Out | So I Became a Historian—Now I’m Telling How It Worked Out
Although what has happened to history as a major is being disputed as I write, it is clear enough that “something is going on.” This essay is written entirely for an audience currently puzzled about “what to major in.” Because the author majored in history at th... |
05b87569c4491125d76808b60d5a5161 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170791 | UPDATED Highlights of the 2019 AHA Annual Meeting | UPDATED Highlights of the 2019 AHA Annual Meeting
Dear #Twitterstorians; my kid in attendance at #AHA19 announced she wants to be a historian and activist. I think my work here is done.
— Naomi Rendina (@NaomiRendina) January 6, 2019
Key Links
AHA Annual Meeting (homepage) Twitter: AHA Annual Convention 2019 (Use #A... |
0c3b1fdedbfeac8faac011865da40af8 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170916 | A Tyrant's Temper Tantrum | A Tyrant's Temper Tantrum
King Charles I of England, frustrated at the limitations of his otherwise powerful position, decided to dissolve Parliament in March of 1629 and to clap several of the opposition’s leaders in irons. The monarch had come to an impasse over issues as lofty as religious conformity and as mundane ... |
cac04b8298224c4df18e9119cd0b6845 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/170959 | William Barr Needs a History Lesson | William Barr Needs a History Lesson
As the Senate Judiciary Committee holds its confirmation hearings for William Barr, the current nominee for Attorney General of the United States, it is clear Barr needs to brush up on his constitutional law, as well as U.S. history.
During yesterday’s hearing, Senator Mazie Hirono (... |
e49055cc0ad0d463a50cbc70fbf34424 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171031 | Kamala Harris is among the few black women to run for president. Here is the amazing story of the first. | Kamala Harris is among the few black women to run for president. Here is the amazing story of the first.
The sitting Republican president was unpopular and divisive. The country was a pressure cooker of partisan rage. Big names in the Democratic Party were mulling whether to jump into the presidential race: past candid... |
97715716615148274c2535993cfc0319 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171034 | What I’m Reading: An Interview With Russianist Historian Katherine Antonova | What I’m Reading: An Interview With Russianist Historian Katherine Antonova
Katherine Pickering Antonova is Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, Queens College. She is the author of An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia (Oxford University Press, 2013) and ... |
6bc76d9ccdeee79c5c117e573c9df327 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171382 | Genocide Denial In Bosnia: A Danger to Europe and to the World | Genocide Denial In Bosnia: A Danger to Europe and to the World
The Srebrenica Genocide Memorial in Potočari
On July 11, 1995, Ratko Mladic and his Serb (VRS) paramilitary units arrived to the sleepy eastern Bosnian city of Srebrenica. Designated a “safe zone,” by the United Nations, civilians from neighboring cities a... |
59775997cb6c674d629017dbeb0a4a78 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171457 | What Historians Are Tweeting: The Women Historians Who Inspire on International Women's Day | What Historians Are Tweeting: The Women Historians Who Inspire on International Women's Day
Dr. Sarah Bond (@SarahEBond) asked "How did your female mentor make a difference in your career?" Here are some of the responses.
Click inside the image below and scroll to see tweets.
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a5c8b61e9627a82cd9d690d3cf523b77 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171478 | How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All | How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All
In the fall of 1916, four years before the 19th Amendment would make it unconstitutional to deny voting rights on the basis of sex, African-American women in Chicago were readying to cast their first ballots ever for President. The scen... |
339e491b14085a872ab617d220f00772 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171508 | Parents, College, Money, and the American Dream | Parents, College, Money, and the American Dream
The University of Southern California, one of the schools mixed up in the college admissions scandal.
The front-page news about the college admissions bribery arrests has people talking about social class, fairness, status anxiety, helicopter parenting, and whether an exp... |
9d675de83689f8b529f0dc568b64a2b6 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/171817 | White supremacists dragged James Byrd to his death in 1998. One of them was just executed. | White supremacists dragged James Byrd to his death in 1998. One of them was just executed.
James Byrd Jr.’s body was found in pieces along a country road in Texas in June 1998.
Forensic investigators later determined the injuries that killed Byrd — cuts and scrapes around his ankles and other abrasions on his body — se... |
20d196fd99f95d1dbba3a43e4b523f69 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172000 | Presidential Moral Character and Teddy Roosevelt | Presidential Moral Character and Teddy Roosevelt
It was Saturday morning, September 14, 1901, and President William McKinley was dead, eight days after being shot by a crazed assassin. Americans were aghast—this was the third murder of a president in thirty-six years. Everything had been going so well. The economy had ... |
a220a741cd4884e1180632d2998ea282 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172005 | What Trump Could Learn About Immigration from Teddy Roosevelt | What Trump Could Learn About Immigration from Teddy Roosevelt
An example of anti-Japanese sentiment.
Recently, Donald Trump virtually gutted the Department of Homeland Security with the forced resignation of DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielson and key deputies because they were ‘too soft’ on immigration. He then made a bad ... |
40d99da271cc89c401e2b250b1aaf423 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172011 | Trump says he’s an antiabortion champion like Reagan. History says: Not quite. | Trump says he’s an antiabortion champion like Reagan. History says: Not quite.
In a Saturday tweetstorm, President Trump bent the reality of Ronald Reagan to align himself with the former president’s view on abortion.
“As most people know, and for those who would like to know, I am strongly Pro-Life, with the three exc... |
260063e0fd5876bf7e05f19bd6337634 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172035 | Why nuclear diplomacy needs more women | Why nuclear diplomacy needs more women
After months of “fire and fury,” a summit, “beautiful” love letters and a promise the North Korean threat was resolved, the latest nuclear weapons negotiation between the United States and North Korea failed. This isn’t surprising.
We haven’t seen a U.S.-North Korea agreement beca... |
dc9f9090abf518f4166e974b968a6923 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172057 | A Day to Remember: Memorial Day 2019 | A Day to Remember: Memorial Day 2019
On May 30, 1963, I urged citizens to remember 42 years earlier when locals dedicated a granite monument in Ashland, Oregon as “a permanent memorial, reminding those that come after us of the glory of the republic, the bravery of its defenders and the holiness of its ideals.” This mo... |
933b02f20942f8b397dece5c26002f1f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172060 | How About a Peace Race Instead of an Arms Race? | How About a Peace Race Instead of an Arms Race?
In late April, the highly-respected Stockholm International Peace Research Institute reported that, in 2018, world military expenditures rose to a record $1.82 trillion. The biggest military spender by far was the United States, which increased its military budget by nea... |
5f6c9d1beb9045c6171245d0035c8f2a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172064 | Leadership and Mimicry: What Plutarch knew about Elizabeth Holmes | Leadership and Mimicry: What Plutarch knew about Elizabeth Holmes
Founder of the biotech company, Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes is currently awaiting trial for cheating investors and deceiving her clients. She claimed that her company was building a device that would revolutionize healthcare by running dozens of lab tests... |
8f8e06dcc0c7acf24636cbd0223b2015 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172078 | Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78 | Edmund Morris, known for his biography of Reagan, dies at 78
Presidential biographer Edmund Morris, best known for writing a book about the life of Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 78.
Morris died Friday in a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, a day after suffering a stroke, his wife, Sylvia Jukes Morris, told The Associ... |
fb926980af59f424cb7bcbfe553db47b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172152 | Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster | Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster
"As the HBO miniseries Chernobyl comes to a conclusion tonight, viewers will have been taken on a dramatic trip back to 1986, experiencing the horror and dread unleashed by the world’s worst-ever civil nuclear disaster. Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explo... |
483456b4d5875e1451810e3654c97261 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172330 | How the Debate Over the Use of the Term ‘Concentration Camp’ was Amicably Resolved in 1998 | How the Debate Over the Use of the Term ‘Concentration Camp’ was Amicably Resolved in 1998
When on June 18th, the Jewish Community Council of Greater New York (known locally as the JCRC) addressed an open letter of complaint to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for calling migrant detention centers “concentration camps,” t... |
fd4409c2ab1cc5b591863eeead6dd970 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172406 | Adding a Citizenship Question to the Census Will Return It to Its Racist Origins | Adding a Citizenship Question to the Census Will Return It to Its Racist Origins
For most Americans, the census is something none of us really think about, for good reason. It doesn’t come around but once every ten years, and then it’s gone again. Besides a few stories on the changing demographics of the country, and p... |
fcdbbbe1343f03e8a402c3c83df095b7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172428 | Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention | Why Tom Ikeda, a historian of Japanese Internment, is Protesting Trump Over Immigrant Detention
When Tom Ikeda, a Seattle historian, learned that 1,400 migrant children will be detained this summer at Fort Sill in Oklahoma, the symbolism hit home.
Pause on that number. One thousand, four hundred kids. That’s how many ... |
b2da883d70a9a029155efae1b2787054 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172535 | Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In | Angered by This Roosevelt Statue? A Museum Wants Visitors to Weigh In
There’s a quote that takes up its own wall at the American Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibition: It’s more important to tell the truth about the president — pleasant or unpleasant — thanabout anyone else.
The words were written, in fact, by ... |
205dfdea29323d06e6fc050ac596734c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172611 | Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War? | Dear Moderators of the Presidential Debates: How About Raising the Issue of How to Avert Nuclear War?
You mass media folks lead busy lives, I’m sure. But you must have heard something about nuclear weapons―those supremely destructive devices that, along with climate change, threaten the continued existence of the huma... |
58a47d825a1d4cf34af0240eb81dacc2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172675 | Who Owns Theodore Roosevelt? | Who Owns Theodore Roosevelt?
Theodore Roosevelt died a century ago in January, but his political legacy remains up for grabs — today, perhaps, more than ever. Everybody wants him on their team. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, has repeatedly cited Roosevelt as her favorite president and her “dream” running mate be... |
523fdef97af218b623db9d7960d4684a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172695 | The Professor Who Was Ostracized for Claiming the Civil War Was About Slavery – In 1911 | The Professor Who Was Ostracized for Claiming the Civil War Was About Slavery – In 1911
The Battle of Williamsburg, Kurz and Allison
Sometimes when we’re poking around in an archive, we come across century-old documents that are strangely relevant. That’s what the story of Enoch Marvin Banks became to me. An aging lett... |
7aa28fe841dabbbd8c11f2590867d103 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172711 | Trump’s Tariff War Resembles the Confederacy’s Failed Trade Policies | Trump’s Tariff War Resembles the Confederacy’s Failed Trade Policies
Current efforts by the United States to put tariff pressures on China resemble the Confederacy’s efforts to pressure Great Britain during the American Civil War. In the early 1860s the Confederate leaders’ strategy backfired, damaging the southern eco... |
774b7c2a81ca915b674ccdb2401b5352 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172743 | The Most Dangerous American Idea | The Most Dangerous American Idea
Last week, the historian Timothy Naftali revealed a 1971 conversation between Richard Nixon, then the president of the United States, and Ronald Reagan, then the governor of California, in which Reagan referred to African United Nations delegates as “monkeys” who are “still uncomfortabl... |
f60d4668433cf0ab5a4e1b7bc17fd270 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172752 | Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race | Why Donald Trump is just following in Ronald Reagan’s footsteps on race
Since his campaign, President Trump has pushed race to the center of American politics. It started with his stance on immigration and intensified with his response to the violence in Charlottesville. Over the past few weeks, he has sharpened the fo... |
ae318b89e6e7730f8aa5005172507bfd | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172849 | Israel’s 2007 Decision to Attack a Syrian Nuclear Facility is History and Warning | Israel’s 2007 Decision to Attack a Syrian Nuclear Facility is History and Warning
Jerusalem Post editor Yaakov Katz probably had no way of knowing that this would be a perfect time to release his briskly-selling Shadow Strike—Inside Israel’s Secret Mission to Eliminate Syrian Nuclear Power (St. Martin’s Press). Or did ... |
4cbbaaf6771fe65b843f5a2f9a08ee88 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172892 | How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery | How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery
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“Textbooks are supposed to teach us a common set of facts about who we are as Americans ... and what stories are key to our democracy,” said Alana D. Murray, a Maryland middle-school principal and author of The Development of the Alternative Bla... |
aecd31d1a755212367a92f6cb2e9fffb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172910 | The Latest G-7 Summit Showcases Trump's Foreign Policy Failures | The Latest G-7 Summit Showcases Trump's Foreign Policy Failures
The just concluded G-7 summit featured a tour de force in diplomatic dexterity and leadership, as French President Emmanuel Macron strove desperately to bring President Donald Trump back into the real world.
On all the key issues of the day—climate change,... |
4629d846a60a24d5441c437ec2093591 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/172987 | National Security Archive Publishes New Documents on the First Soviet Nuclear Test Offering New Information on Beginning of Nuclear Arms Race | National Security Archive Publishes New Documents on the First Soviet Nuclear Test Offering New Information on Beginning of Nuclear Arms Race
Seventy years ago, on 9 September 1949, Director of Central Intelligence Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter handed President Harry Truman a carefully worded report of “an abnormal radi... |
353d2efd34bc2aa6920da3b2af92ed10 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173099 | A Family History of the Red Scare | A Family History of the Red Scare
Who gets to decide what it means to be an American? It's a question of some urgency these days, and one that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Maraniss addresses in A Good American Family: My Father and the Red Scare as he recounts the historical experiences of his father, Elliot... |
5fc2c4adb3a5c255257080ca266e6faf | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173149 | What Does History Tell Us About Impeachment and Presidential Scandal? Here's 7 Historians' Analysis. | What Does History Tell Us About Impeachment and Presidential Scandal? Here's 7 Historians' Analysis.
What a week! I--like many of you, I’m sure—have been glued to my phone, constantly hitting refresh on Twitter and the Washington Post’s website.
This morning alone, lawmakers released the whistleblower report at the cen... |
e2b06ce3ffce52d5b48ed46feab6b65c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173167 | How Do We Address a Statue of President Roosevelt That Affirms Racist Hierarchies? | How Do We Address a Statue of President Roosevelt That Affirms Racist Hierarchies?
Almost two years after the 2017 fascist rally at Charlottesville around a mediocre statue of Robert E. Lee, the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) opened its exhibition Addressing the Statue for an unspecified run. The statue in q... |
af9838a2e06e8012ac09c59433b86250 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173226 | Incognegro: How Law Enforcement Spies on Black Radical Groups | Incognegro: How Law Enforcement Spies on Black Radical Groups
In the center of the photo - Herb Callender (front, dark suit, Black male) and Ray Wood (sunglasses, bow tie, white suit, Black male)
Attorney General Barr recently gave a speech to the country's largest law-enforcement organization in which he criticized "s... |
cff56187525dcc97d76cdc855ef7bdd0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173282 | The History Briefing on Pregnancy Discrimination: What Historians Had to Say About This Week’s News | The History Briefing on Pregnancy Discrimination: What Historians Had to Say About This Week’s News
Editors note: This is part of a series called The History Briefing. Contributors, primarily HNN internships, historically contextualize the week's top headlines by summarizing how different historians have added their un... |
5d7e58c9eda491d5eed74fee798907e9 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173284 | Why We Must Impeach | Why We Must Impeach
With a single telephone call, Donald Trump betrayed the presidency in ways almost unimaginable until that moment. During the call, he attempted to pressure a foreign leader to help him smear and destroy both a chief political opponent and that opponent’s political party to benefit himself in a presi... |
e93372da6246bafdb438cb66db52ad13 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173306 | A newspaper accused the president’s family of profiting from a foreign deal. The president sued. | A newspaper accused the president’s family of profiting from a foreign deal. The president sued.
The president was furious over “scurrilous and libelous” newspaper articles alleging wrongdoing by men linked to his administration. Somebody should sue the newspapers for libel, he suggested. Maybe even the federal governm... |
af13628038f85b2aa479d09bf2544e6b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173344 | Melania Trump Just Restarted a 100-Year-Old Political Controversy: The White House Tennis Court | Melania Trump Just Restarted a 100-Year-Old Political Controversy: The White House Tennis Court
On Tuesday October 8, with impeachment speculation swirling and increasingly disturbing reports coming out of Syria, First Lady Melania Trump broke through the noise to share some good news: Ground was being broken for the c... |
f9eb03565113bace9a1c2324aaa4301c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173359 | The Internet At 50: How the Dot-Com Bubble Burst | The Internet At 50: How the Dot-Com Bubble Burst
This is the second article in a series reflecting on the Internet at 50. For the first article, click here.
As the new millennium began, greed, ignorance, and misplaced hopes within the tech world nearly destroyed the financial potential for the internet. But as describ... |
32f425c693948f0f7dea2265ef0486f0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173413 | The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born | The Internet at 50: The Night the Internet Was Born
Above: The laboratory’s logbook from the night the Internet was born
This is the third article in a series reflecting on the Internet at 50. For the first article on the four developments that created the world wide web, click here. For the second on the dot com bubbl... |
a30b0f10c53a3b3ffbe609b961e1d8e3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173429 | Washington Post Quotes Historian Ryan Swanson in Article about Teddy Roosevelt and Baseball | Washington Post Quotes Historian Ryan Swanson in Article about Teddy Roosevelt and Baseball
...
“Father and all of us regarded baseball as a mollycoddle game,” his daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, once said. “Tennis, football, lacrosse, boxing, polo, yes — they are violent, which appealed to us. But baseball? Fathe... |
8b87e51a7378fe9146628a3467a7a04f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173440 | National Security Archive Publishes New Briefing Book on Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959 | National Security Archive Publishes New Briefing Book on Nuclear Weapons and Turkey Since 1959
The current crisis with Turkey over Syria has raised questions, yet to be resolved, about the security of 50 U.S. nuclear weapons stored at Incirlik Air Base. These questions have been posed before, going back almost to the s... |
b9618b3668f02017d559037371bb31f3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173550 | The Overlooked Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster | The Overlooked Aftermath of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
April 26, 1986. Ukrainian Republic of the Soviet Union. The Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. The blast propelled a massive amount of radioactive material into the atmosphere. This fallout covered a wide area of what is now Ukraine... |
55680b747d98cde230f10f219c8914f9 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173570 | Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway | Berlin Didn’t Want a Reagan Statue—but It’s Getting One Anyway
Ronald Reagan loved Berlin. For the German capital, things are more complicated.
For years, the city’s successive governments have resisted gentle prodding by U.S. dignitaries to erect a statue of the late president, who famously called in a 1987 speech her... |
ebe7beeedacc074885fad72f1813a3fc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173710 | Fourth Spy Unearthed in U.S. Atomic Bomb Project | Fourth Spy Unearthed in U.S. Atomic Bomb Project
The world’s first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of a highly secretive effort code-named the Manhattan Project, whose nerve center lay nearby in Los Alamos. Just 49 months later, the Soviets detonated a nearly identical d... |
c2d7fbc6ca6f3d4614f71e0c24361e13 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173732 | William Barr’s Upside-Down Constitution | William Barr’s Upside-Down Constitution
Attorney General William Barr’s November 15 speech before the Federalist Society, delivered at its annualNational Lawyers Convention,received considerable attention.Barr attackedwhat he views as progressives’ unscrupulous and relentless attacks on President Trump and Senate Democ... |
4bfa727e2303a006d2ef599692472888 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173928 | Americans Are Ready for a Different Approach to Nuclear Weapons | Americans Are Ready for a Different Approach to Nuclear Weapons
Although today’s public protests against nuclear weapons can’t compare to the major antinuclear upheavals of past decades, there are clear indications that most Americans reject the Trump administration’s nuclear weapons policies.
Since entering office in ... |
b754a63177b6cb19775ff0e3a1eadca3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/173977 | Iran Air Flight 655: Iran’s president invokes 1988 tragedy many Americans have forgotten | Iran Air Flight 655: Iran’s president invokes 1988 tragedy many Americans have forgotten
On Saturday, President Trump invoked history when tweeting out a threat to destroy “52 Iranian sites … some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture.” He said the potential targets represent the 52 Americans w... |
d3eedd88eeb4f9aa3842077a2ecf1fee | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174090 | Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat? The Answer Is Complicated | Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Republican or a Democrat? The Answer Is Complicated
Martin Luther King Jr.’s influence on American politics and his views about policy issues are a perennial topic of discussion around the time of his January 15 birthday and the Martin Luther King Jr. Day federal holiday. However, the civil... |
22f10d7ad2f285b8fa30c82d669388f7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174106 | The History of Presidential Misconduct Beyond Watergate and Iran-Contra | The History of Presidential Misconduct Beyond Watergate and Iran-Contra
In 1974, James Banner was 1 of 14 historians tasked with creating a report on presidential misconduct and how presidents and their families responded to the charges. The resulting report was a chronicle of presidential misconduct from George Washin... |
d34cf2586a655e1de8210ea564645901 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174142 | Could the Climate Crisis Be “The Good News of Damnation”? | Could the Climate Crisis Be “The Good News of Damnation”?
On August 12, 1945, six days after the U.S. government obliterated the city of Hiroshima with a single atomic bomb, Robert Hutchins, the president of the University of Chicago, delivered a remarkable public address. Speaking on his weekly radio program, the Chi... |
55f7d85b76ee265be93faafeb1d6feb7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174199 | Historians Struggle to Understand Oral History Written in Forgotten Shorthand | Historians Struggle to Understand Oral History Written in Forgotten Shorthand
Scholars at a Utah university are trying to unlock a mystery after discovering a nearly 70-year-old transcript of an interview with a notorious brothel owner that is written in a shorthand style that few people can read today.
The interview w... |
27a1dcd30a51c847e0b2c887985a55b3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174213 | Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from a 1921 race massacre | Tulsa plans to dig for suspected mass graves from a 1921 race massacre
Nearly a century after a race massacre left as many as 300 people dead, the city plans to dig for suspected mass graves that may have been used to dispose of African American bodies.
Archaeologists searching for mass graves connected to the 1921 Tul... |
4e9fac76cecdd9e698b131fc3ea5c6b0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174256 | Re-Animating the 1619 Project: Teachable Moments Not Turf Wars | Re-Animating the 1619 Project: Teachable Moments Not Turf Wars
Who wins when distinguished historians, all white, pick fights over the history of slavery with prominent New York Times journalists, all black, who developed the newspaper’s 1619 Project? Beginning last year, a stream of well known scholars have been objec... |
a8a7803aea144e0aaf650be38406dd72 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174263 | These 19 black women fought for voting rights | These 19 black women fought for voting rights
August 18, 2020 marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment guaranteeing all American women “suffrage,” or the right to vote. The dominant narrative about the women’s suffrage movement is framed through the experiences of white women (and to some extent, ab... |
b01100f7b99a60f3849d0c7c58f0406a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174269 | Chernobyl disaster worse than we were told, historian Kate Brown says | Chernobyl disaster worse than we were told, historian Kate Brown says
The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion may seem far away in time and place to Montanans, but radioactivity from that disaster and from decades of nuclear bomb tests can be traced to every American and we still don’t really know the health consequ... |
e08bbe48088ab9907ddb44db59697d4e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174273 | Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South | Carrying Community: The Black Midwife’s Bag in the American South
The classic 1953 documentary film All My Babies features the life and work of Mary Coley, a legendary African-American “granny” midwife.1 The film follows Coley as she travels around her rural Georgia community carrying her ever-present black satchel. In... |
abfa0d160f47996be8ff0e96bb2e7687 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174287 | When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies’ | When White Women Wanted a Monument to Black ‘Mammies’
In 1923, a group of white women wanted to build what they called a “monument to the faithful colored mammies” in Washington. These women, members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, pressed lawmakers in Congress to introduce a bill. The Senate passed it, but... |
6fdfeb19a4472906c4c342d5382ba072 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174290 | New England Historic Genealogical Society Receives Collection of Roosevelt Family Papers from the Theodore Roosevelt Association of Oyster Bay, New York | New England Historic Genealogical Society Receives Collection of Roosevelt Family Papers from the Theodore Roosevelt Association of Oyster Bay, New York
Deeper glimpses into the fascinating lives of the extended family of Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), the 26th president of the United States, have been added to the co... |
cd43d4c2e253ae98313c63ad8d2f3af2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174308 | Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa | Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa
As a native Tulsan, I felt like I was dreaming when I saw a hologram of Henry Louis Gates Jr. greeting visitors at the Greenwood Cultural Center in Tulsa, Okla. But this wasn’t real life — it was the parallel reality of HBO’s “Watchmen,” where the fictional Gates character is the tre... |
8aef97bc1716e60e82a91f5dba45c1ac | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174337 | In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism | In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism
The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story’s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast a... |
6b81fc25ad6709e89308cd8dc301fcf9 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174342 | How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian | How a Fake Priest Duped Oxford and a World-Famous Historian
A con man is only as good as his charm. Frank William Abagnale, reincarnated by Leonardo DiCaprio in “Catch Me if You Can,” inhabited half a dozen identities by the time he was 21 and did so with such brio that he was able to fool hundreds. Charles Ponzi was a... |
9c5af7fe049f3e2fa0ade423b0611807 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174385 | Bernie Sanders, Social Democracy, and Democratic Socialism | Bernie Sanders, Social Democracy, and Democratic Socialism
Bernie Sanders is the best kind of social democrat and sort of a democratic socialist. He roars against economic corruption, severe inequality, and donor class politics, protesting that Wall Street Democrats dominate the Democratic Party. He espouses a welfare ... |
0966ae5e921bc91fec6581d628017b16 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/174396 | California Plans to Apologize to Japanese-Americans Over Internment | California Plans to Apologize to Japanese-Americans Over Internment
Nearly 80 years after President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the military to move thousands of Japanese-Americans into internment camps, California plans to formally apologize for its role in their detention.
The resolution, introduced by State Ass... |
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