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9804539e9b86af0ec6a15a093fac28eb | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/terror-in-ad-1000-55965537/ | Terror in A.D. 1000? | Terror in A.D. 1000?
Popular accounts of the turn of the last millennium paint a world gone mad. Churches crammed with penitents, soldiers departed from the battlefield, farmers gone from their fields; and the church offering solace to all in exchange for property and gold. While easy to embrace, this vision of medieva... |
9e15ad3a204f81ece7d995e428b607df | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-age-of-peace-820068/ | The Age of Peace | The Age of Peace
One overlooked benefit of aging populations may be the prospect of a more peaceful world.
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Demographers have found that developing nations with “youth bulges”—more than 40 percent of people between the ages of 15 and 29—are 2.5 times more prone to internal conflict, including ter... |
b7a866333aad4766727010b25428f509 | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/?all | The Ambush That Changed History | The Ambush That Changed History
“This is the soil of 2,000 years ago, where we are standing now,” Susanne Wilbers-Rost was saying as a young volunteer pried a small, dark clod out of it. Wilbers-Rost, a specialist in early German archaeology, peered through wire-rimmed glasses, brushed away some earth, and handed an ob... |
af5ee570982b6d9d60079e718f7eec1d | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-art-and-science-of-embarrassing-art-162978657/ | The Art and Science of Embarrassing Art | The Art and Science of Embarrassing Art
German Expressionist art is not easy to appreciate. It can be embarrassing, which is probably the point. Three artists living in Vienna at the turn of the century (~1880-1920), Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele, were instrumental in moving art away from the goal of p... |
528e7204f553d3663ded3b80d17d17ff | https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ax-murderer-who-got-away-117037374/ | The Ax Murderer Who Got Away | The Ax Murderer Who Got Away
Shortly after midnight on June 10, 1912—one hundred years ago this week—a stranger hefting an ax lifted the latch on the back door of a two-story timber house in the little Iowa town of Villisca. The door was not locked—crime was not the sort of thing you worried about in a modestly prosper... |
ca450e28aa4556570684c4fc454c6383 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179718 | The Roundup Top Ten for March 26, 2021 | The Roundup Top Ten for March 26, 2021
I Don’t Want My Role Models Erased by Elizabeth Becker The work of women journalists covering the war in Vietnam has been obscured in remembrance of the war and its place in American history and culture. The author seeks to recover the stories of Frances FitzGerald, Kate Webb and ... |
741178390a88f760f009567dde658d40 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179720 | Will the Supreme Court Uphold the NCAA's Version of Amateurism? | Will the Supreme Court Uphold the NCAA's Version of Amateurism?
EA Sports has, to the chagrin of many gamers, not produced an NCAA-licensed football video game since 2013. The video game market is just one area of dispute over the right of collegiate athletes to compensation for the commercial use of their names, image... |
48342b6f7f268100407cd9ee10566f22 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179721 | "What the Black Man Wants": Frederick Douglass's Answers Still Resonate | "What the Black Man Wants": Frederick Douglass's Answers Still Resonate
In April of 1865, Frederick Douglass addressed the Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. At forty-four years of age, six-foot-one inches tall, streaks of gray emerging in his hair, Douglas still radiated strength. He stood resol... |
15081b0b8ad0a335f775a22400fa109a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179722 | Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition? | Can Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Overcome the Opposition?
White House vigil, June 2006. Photo moi 84, CC BY-SA 3.0
Given the fact that nuclear war means the virtual annihilation of life on earth, it’s remarkable that many people continue to resist building a nuclear weapons-free world. Is the human race suicidal?
Befo... |
2b8c8cbe31acca75da548ac0559dba55 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179723 | Historians for Peace and Democracy Present Free Resources for History Educators | Historians for Peace and Democracy Present Free Resources for History Educators
Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) is a national organization of progressive historians. As part of our mission to foster education on campuses and in communities, encourage activism, and facilitate networking with organizations tha... |
7da16a896269e03fc947e5214cfab910 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179724 | Can Biden Fulfill JFK's Incomplete Promise of a Peace Presidency? | Can Biden Fulfill JFK's Incomplete Promise of a Peace Presidency?
JFK and Nikita Kruschev at the 1961 Vienna Summit. Talks there led toward the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty. NARA record: 3951647
President Joe Biden and his advisers appear to have studied the lessons of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency. Several executive... |
aea13e1dadb65ea67d203a9f32315199 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179725 | America Does Have an "Original Sin": A Response to James Goodman | America Does Have an "Original Sin": A Response to James Goodman
Scrolling amongst all the clickbait on CNN’s website these days, I was genuinely intrigued when I saw James Goodman’s headline “It’s Time to Stop Calling Slavery America’s ‘Original Sin’.” I was, however—as I often am—left disappointed by the click after ... |
a5a732e5e278e675d240da6285b1f803 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179726 | Ammon Bundy's Ongoing Religious War | Ammon Bundy's Ongoing Religious War
Ammon Bundy's arrest for failure to appear was triggered by his refusal to wear a mask into the courthouse.
Still from Ammon Bundy YouTube.
Ammon Bundy, right-wing malcontent behind the 2016 armed takeover of Oregon’s Malheur Wildlife Refuge and now a western anti-mask movement, beli... |
1177d176cc3ee236c4a00ad324478311 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179727 | Is History Ready to Judge the Trump Presidency? | Is History Ready to Judge the Trump Presidency?
With the second Trump impeachment concluded, the (first) Trump presidency is officially confined to history. How should history understand the Trump presidency? Right now, we would be hard-pressed to find anyone who disagreed with the contemporary consensus that Trump sha... |
54d5ab8226a6c9b84129b19c3a1dee26 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179728 | Telling the Story of the "Ghost Children" of Germans who Plotted Against Hitler | Telling the Story of the "Ghost Children" of Germans who Plotted Against Hitler
I was excited.
I recognized the tell-tale signs of discovery after a decades-long career of sharing under-told stories from history with children and teens. Excitement, yes, and a sense that I’d found my next book. But this was something mo... |
1f5f3c6512cdaa28dea5c05fb4c97065 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179731 | The Lack of Federal Voting Rights Protections Returns Us to the Pre-Civil War Era | The Lack of Federal Voting Rights Protections Returns Us to the Pre-Civil War Era
As Senate Democrats push to extend federal protection of voting rights, bills to restrict citizens’ access to the vote — many based on models produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation — have been introduced in 43 states. On Thursda... |
91bfdc364cd4dc124bf9362c5407b10c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179734 | The Problem with Confederate Monuments | The Problem with Confederate Monuments
During the summer of 1993, as I drove down I-59 from Hattiesburg, Miss., to New Orleans to do some historical research for my dissertation, I spotted a bumper sticker with a Confederate battle flag that read “Don’t Blame Me, I Voted for Jeff Davis!” It was a play on the bumper sti... |
f9e456d156d5a546eec7f952cc74676a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179736 | Teaching Controversial History: Four Moves | Teaching Controversial History: Four Moves
Inspired by some recent conversations and experiences, I have been thinking about how I approach the task of teaching controversial topics.
Much of my approach, I think, is directly inspired by having been a fairly prickly kind of student myself. I still see a lot of myself in... |
f2add09eea61c2709aa264bd4d8754c3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179746 | Mitch McConnell is Wrong. The Filibuster is, in Fact, Racist | Mitch McConnell is Wrong. The Filibuster is, in Fact, Racist
In a recent news conference, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made a startling observation that quickly went viral. The Senate filibuster, he remarked, "has no racial history at all. None. There's no dispute among historians about that."
As a hi... |
3aef0d2f913de718eb3df0c19b232c15 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179748 | Government has Always Picked Winners and Losers | Government has Always Picked Winners and Losers
With the American Rescue Plan, the Biden administration has not only witnessed the passage of the most sweeping federal relief effort in recent history, but also advanced an argument about the role of public policy as a force for good in our economy. Polling shows that th... |
5a57e31b6e9c69b431cc290e6d2ba3d7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179752 | Paleo Con | Paleo Con
“They must be the most contented people in the world.” This is how the 1980 comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy introduces the San peoples of the Kalahari Desert, better known as the Bushmen. They eke out a simple living, the narrator explains, digging for roots and tubers, hunting with bows and arrows, and collect... |
5d558ee0ed0caadeb65a38cda3a19a5e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179760 | Who's Afraid of Antiracism? | Who's Afraid of Antiracism?
Antiracism is not a threat to the state. It seeks to rectify and repair, not terrorize and destroy. Yet you wouldn’t know that if you looked at what the Macron administration in France has been doing over the past six months. In the midst of summer 2020’s protests against racial injustice an... |
0f525520d9101fd5624709b7349c2341 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179761 | America’s Longest War Winds Down | America’s Longest War Winds Down
“Ours is the cause of freedom. We’ve defeated freedom’s enemies before, and we will defeat them again… [W]e know our cause is just and our ultimate victory is assured… My fellow Americans, let’s roll.”
— George W. Bush, November 8, 2001
In the immediate wake of 9/11, it fell to Presiden... |
c515893cc91dce1791d4b161d1a3b5a4 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179768 | HNN Will Be OFF This Thursday and Friday (April 1 and 2) | HNN Will Be OFF This Thursday and Friday (April 1 and 2)
HNN will be taking the end of this week off (April 1 and 2). We will not be emailing a newsletter on Friday morning, but will post the week's Roundup Top Ten, along with a slate of new op ed essays, on Sunday. HNN will resume normal news posts on Monday, April 5.... |
a7cf0aad064296e8eb9eda328c1dec5f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179775 | Working with Histories that Haunt Us | Working with Histories that Haunt Us
When I first began to conceptualize my dissertation project, I knew I wanted to write about an iconic group of textile traders in Togo called the Nana Benz. These women are the stuff of legends in my native country and although many think of their wealth and political influence as a... |
4889ac48e62917a1b7ab1a39bb392a0a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179776 | The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law | The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law
Seventy-five years ago this July, a World War II veteran named Maceo Snipes reportedly became the first Black man to cast a ballot in his rural Georgia county. The next day, a white man shot him in his front yard, and Mr. Snipes would soon afterward die from those wounds.
F... |
dd76b3a93b0fc6750c506d032c65799a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179777 | The Roundup Top Ten for April 1, 2021 | The Roundup Top Ten for April 1, 2021
The Painful History of the Georgia Voting Law by Jason Morgan Ward The new wave of vote suppression bills, like the one in Georgia, reflect a less obvious but important aspect of Jim Crow law: the use of superficially race-neutral language to keep specific groups from voting. The d... |
7c4e59ca8d8bb90314a41dff082041fc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179779 | Hidden Stories of Jewish Resistance in Poland | Hidden Stories of Jewish Resistance in Poland
In 1959, writing about the Holocaust, scholar Mark Bernard highlighted that Jewish resistance was almost always considered a miracle, ethereal, beyond research scope. Still today, this impression generally persists. And yet, Jewish defiance was everywhere during the war, ca... |
66ba326c2026c053022c26255dc446db | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179780 | What Comes Next? | What Comes Next?
Poster images by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, from I Still Believe in Our City, a recent public art campaign for the New York City Commission on Human Rights.
“Until we address the discrimination and harassment against Asian Americans today, they will become deeply entrenched in the fabric of our nation, ... |
c3fb00e391799b4be9b1c1a12acda056 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179781 | Economic Justice and Political Stability Require More Progressive Taxation | Economic Justice and Political Stability Require More Progressive Taxation
Income Tax filers, 1920
The invasion of the Capitol on January 6th is a sign of deep anger at the course of American life among what is usually called the “white working class.” Beside it is the protest of black America over continuing racism a... |
33e53836123e27e461fe8523cb14c2d7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179782 | Pamela, Randolph and Winston: The Wartime Discord of the Churchills | Pamela, Randolph and Winston: The Wartime Discord of the Churchills
Pamela Digby, photographed in 1938, before her brief courtship and tumultuous marriage (1939-1945) with Randolph Churchill.
In the spring of 1941, Averell Harriman, Roosevelt’s special envoy to Britain, started an affair. That both he and the woman in ... |
985791cc5f7b84353a0be20ce0e5833e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179783 | Teachers, Keep Hope about the Minds You Influence | Teachers, Keep Hope about the Minds You Influence
Professor Donald Treadgold of the University of Washington.
How and to what degree does a teacher impact a student? I doubt that we will ever be able to gauge the matter. I believe it may boil down to matters of hopefulness and pessimism and the moral imperative of mak... |
a5b157277d8bf48380389d815b352823 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179784 | A Personal and Family History of Encountering Prejudice and Intolerance | A Personal and Family History of Encountering Prejudice and Intolerance
Anti-Asian sentiment is nothing new in America. For instance, the Chinese exclusion Act of 1882 and the acts that preceded it, especially those that restricted Chinese women from living and working in the United States and those laws that followed ... |
a77dc042e029024d7146e3f89d0d044b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179785 | Richard Minear Reflects on Teaching History, Including Teaching Vietnamese History during the Vietnam War | Richard Minear Reflects on Teaching History, Including Teaching Vietnamese History during the Vietnam War
Dr. Minear grew up in Newton outside of Boston and his wife was born in Northampton. He taught at Ohio State University from 1967 to 1970. “That was prime Vietnam time,” he said. “Columbus, Ohio is distinctly not ... |
419d8b182c70f7a90891845ec813f3ab | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179786 | Paying the Price: Our Veterans and the Burden of Parkinson's Disease | Paying the Price: Our Veterans and the Burden of Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson’s disease is the world’s fastest growing brain disease, even faster than Alzheimer’s. The number affected worldwide has doubled in the past 25 years and, absent change, will double again in the coming generation. In the U.S., 1.1 million A... |
05b7b47b416b2e9cd33c463281256c37 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179797 | “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World” | “The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
Fifty-four years ago, standing at the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his now-famous “Beyond Vietnam” sermon. For the first time in public, he expressed in vehement terms his opposition to the American war in Vietnam. He sa... |
53bc22670d4b14f5802348e142637668 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179802 | If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It? | If It’s Not Jim Crow, What Is It?
The laws that disenfranchised Black Americans in the South and established Jim Crow did not actually say they were disenfranchising Black Americans and creating a one-party racist state.
I raise this because of a debate among politicians and partisans on whether Georgia’s new election ... |
06606e5879b48c0f77a2f15919d79bdb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179806 | Methods of Power: How do Authoritarians Rule? (Review) | Methods of Power: How do Authoritarians Rule? (Review)
The intellectual left reacted to Donald Trump’s election in 2016 in two very different ways. One group, like so many in the general public, immediately fell into full panic mode. The historian Timothy Snyder, for instance, rushed into print with a book called On Ty... |
21fa1b2ac31c37c0c9848f98556684a1 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179808 | Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham? | Can America’s Problems Be Fixed By a President Who Loves Jon Meacham?
In February 2019, Joe Biden paid the University of Delaware a visit to celebrate the renaming of its public policy school in his honor. Biden, a famously middling student, feigned sheepishness over his alma mater’s tribute and suggested the honor rea... |
9106e6e9e096eb6fae5c37403f9ab065 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179810 | Women’s College Sports Was Growing. Then the NCAA Took Over | Women’s College Sports Was Growing. Then the NCAA Took Over
Fifty years ago, Carole Oglesby helped establish a governing body for women in college athletics at a time when the National Collegiate Athletics Association only oversaw men’s sports. When she saw images earlier this month of the inferior training facilities ... |
23a6b6e8062c0ec5d0c1f019f76bb2f6 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179812 | Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer? | Philip Roth Was His Own Favorite Subject. What’s Left for a Biographer?
Philip Roth, who stopped writing in 2010 and died eight years later at age 85, was not sure if he wanted to be the subject of a biography. He was the narrator of his story. King of sitzfleisch, Roth sat at his desk banging out his legacy 340 days a... |
c7d7a3b1f864afa83b234304ec7bf36f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179813 | Slavery ‘Not Just About Profit And Suffering’, UK Government-Backed Race Report Claims | Slavery ‘Not Just About Profit And Suffering’, UK Government-Backed Race Report Claims
Slavery was not just about making profit and British schools should instead tell a “new story” about culturally African people, a controversial government-backed report has said.
The race and ethnic disparities commission said the UK... |
fba1cd93419df46d15400c3b3eda7de9 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179814 | G. Gordon Liddy, Undercover Operative Convicted in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 90 | G. Gordon Liddy, Undercover Operative Convicted in Watergate Scandal, Dies at 90
G. Gordon Liddy, the undercover operative whose bungling of the Watergate break-in triggered one of the gravest constitutional crises in American history and led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, died March 30 at his daught... |
0ac9dc80cedee65f89a912defdb82370 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179815 | Stolen Confederate Monument will Become a 'Toilet' Unless ‘White Lies Matter’ Demands are Met, Group Vows | Stolen Confederate Monument will Become a 'Toilet' Unless ‘White Lies Matter’ Demands are Met, Group Vows
A group claiming responsibility for the theft of a Confederate monument in Selma, Ala., laid out ransom terms in emails to local media Monday.
The price for the relic’s return? Not cash, but a demand that the headq... |
eebc4f9d26cc4daba5de23df03c8157e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179817 | How a Chicago Teacher Sparked a 'Memory War,' Forcing Lithuania to Confront its Nazi Past | How a Chicago Teacher Sparked a 'Memory War,' Forcing Lithuania to Confront its Nazi Past
VILNIUS, Lithuania — As her mother lay dying, Silvia Foti made a promise. She vowed to continue her plans to write a book about her mother's father, Foti's grandfather, a Lithuanian hero known as "General Storm."
He was among the ... |
d63e1a8a58a44e4c0429a14d40e393b1 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179818 | 'This is still being suppressed': OU professor's book of recovered photos preserves history of Tulsa Race Massacre | 'This is still being suppressed': OU professor's book of recovered photos preserves history of Tulsa Race Massacre
Once a gathering place for the city’s Black community, Mount Zion Baptist Church stands empty with smoke billowing from it, shortly before being burned to the ground, in an image from the Tulsa Race Massac... |
ac6f4ac96bf79533626c9190fa75999f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179819 | AHA Issues Letter Regarding Proposed Termination of Tenured Faculty Members at Salem State University (April 2021) | AHA Issues Letter Regarding Proposed Termination of Tenured Faculty Members at Salem State University (April 2021)
Editor's Note: there is dispute about the nature of the proposal to eliminate specific tenured faculty positions at Salem State. After a faculty member received (from an unrelated public records request) a... |
4c46ce24dbfa3fe6176420b7a35b7f42 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179820 | Your Weather Forecast Update: Warmer Climate Will Be The New 'Normal' | Your Weather Forecast Update: Warmer Climate Will Be The New 'Normal'
It's become so common, perhaps you've stopped noticing how often your local weather forecast is "above normal." It's noted during extreme heat in the summer, when mild temperatures persist through the winter, or when nights don't cool down like they ... |
3325b27ff80519c444e08de33330c2fb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179823 | SSU Faculty Retrenchment Plan Accidentally Released | SSU Faculty Retrenchment Plan Accidentally Released
Already tense relations between faculty and administrators at Salem State University have only further deteriorated after an unfinished planning document was accidentally released in a records request — a document that contained multiple scenarios to significantly red... |
f723531898951630dde35e5e2f6d00bc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/179829 | Can Joe Biden Replicate FDR’s Success in Rebuilding the Democrats’ Coalition? | Can Joe Biden Replicate FDR’s Success in Rebuilding the Democrats’ Coalition?
Eric Rauchway’s latest book about the New Deal begins nearly two years before Franklin D Roosevelt took office in 1933, at the time of a clash over pensions for veterans of the First World War.
This era of US history is often portrayed in Ame... |
0304cce5591368d110d5a81fe9c90b94 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1802 | The Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of | The Vietnam War Crimes You Never Heard Of
On October 19, 2003, the Ohio-based newspaper the Toledo Blade launched
a four-day
series of investigative reports exposing a string of atrocities by an elite,
volunteer, 45-man "Tiger Force" unit of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne
Division over the course of seven month... |
3971feddf154f6bc0eca4ed885036290 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1811 | FROM OUR ARCHIVES What Should We Make of the Charge Linking the Bush Family Fortune to Nazism? | FROM OUR ARCHIVES What Should We Make of the Charge Linking the Bush Family Fortune to Nazism?
Editor's Note: Over the course of the past month several articles have been published on the Internet and in a handful of print publications that raised questions about the financial ties between the founder of the Bush dynas... |
502ec946b474878b0e1a9ca2f7f7d62f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/2940 | Judenrein Palestine? | Judenrein Palestine?
Rachel Neuwirth, writing in Israeli National News (Jan. 6, 2004):
Why is it that people are proposing a Middle East peace plan that will make Judea and Samaria Judenrein (the Nazi term for a place with no Jews)?
It is the historic homeland and birthplace of the Jewish people, yet many world le... |
d73c8605d814b4cfde0f09bdf2e493f5 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/30519 | About the Herbert Aptheker Sexual Revelations | About the Herbert Aptheker Sexual Revelations
My first reaction to the shocking news in Bettina Aptheker’s book that her father, Herbert, sexually abused her as a child (as described in Chris Phelps’s article in the Chronicle of Higher Education), was contained in my October 3 letter to Chris (see the end of this note)... |
5beb642a758e146c7e3d76c1991a2575 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/31400 | What Happened When Democrats in Congress Cut Off Funding for the Vietnam War? | What Happened When Democrats in Congress Cut Off Funding for the Vietnam War?
The prospect of Democrats controlling the 110th Congress has raised speculation over a possible suspension of funds for the war in Iraq. Given control of the purse strings, a Democratic Congress would be in the position to force the governmen... |
d3436e7932f26c1b134b53534cebc39b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/33300 | History at Yale In the Dark Ages, 1953-76 | History at Yale In the Dark Ages, 1953-76
I was at Yale, in and around the programs in Directed Studies, Scholar of the House, American Studies and History; living in Farnam, Berkeley, Silliman; as undergraduate, graduate student, teaching assistant, and finally instructor, most of the time from 1953 to 1963. I have st... |
452b66ccf9653f80308f7be090831cfe | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/41698 | How Paranoid Was Nixon? | How Paranoid Was Nixon?
It wasn’t the crime, but it wasn’t the cover-up, either. Something more basic took down a president 33 years ago.
Long before prosecutors identified him as an unindicted coconspirator, Richard Nixon was a conspiracy theorist. In the last 10 years, the government has systematically declassifi... |
f9c174637a5b95da6032ed663ecd5162 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/45042 | Scott Horton and David T. Beito: Why Ron Paul Is Right About Terrorism ... A Letter to the GOP Base | Scott Horton and David T. Beito: Why Ron Paul Is Right About Terrorism ... A Letter to the GOP Base
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520fae4735234bc72a2e6b291cd6e976 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/51384 | Historians and Facebook: In the Halls of an Electronic AHA | Historians and Facebook: In the Halls of an Electronic AHA
Facebook
Why should historians be on Facebook? I think it has the potential to be an electronic version of the halls of the AHA: a place of lively and utterly informal talk about what historians are doing and saying, and what’s going on in their lives. Just as ... |
e972e3bfaa05a0e2fd5e104f38f148cb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/695 | Bobby Seale’s Confession: David Horowitz Was Right On | Bobby Seale’s Confession: David Horowitz Was Right On
Seale is best remembered for his 1969 courtroom histrionics as one of the Chicago Eight, the eight moral degenerates who were put on trial for inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Seale’s behavior caused the judge to order him shackled to a chair and ga... |
be540c61c11d58aba2bb929abbcfb97b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7886 | Kerry Got that de Gaulle Story Half-Right | Kerry Got that de Gaulle Story Half-Right
Note from the Editor: This article is based, in part, on information graciously provided by the H-Diplo historians who answered our request for fast help.
In the first presidential debate John Kerry argued that America has lost credibility in the eyes of its allies. In the con... |
9d824c8cc40fb1bee4e152acce251e83 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/7982 | The Cuban Missile Crisis Myth You Probably Believe | The Cuban Missile Crisis Myth You Probably Believe
Several months after the publication of Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford University Press, 2003), my narrative history of the Cuban missile crisis ExComm meetings, I received a call from a production ... |
1754c85c3a376c02c4c34d1f9bbce285 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/814 | Did J. Edgar Hoover Really Wear Dresses? | Did J. Edgar Hoover Really Wear Dresses?
In 1993, Anthony Summers, in his book Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, claimed that Hoover did not pursue organized crime because the Mafia had blackmail material on him. In support of that, Summers quoted Susan L. Rosenstiel, a former wife of Lewis... |
1daae367401549cfa91170fc004dda48 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/83554 | American Torture: No Knowledge of History, No Sense of Tragedy | American Torture: No Knowledge of History, No Sense of Tragedy
Recently in the New York Times, Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti showed that the Bush Administration, the CIA, and the Senate and House Intelligence Committees failed to ask for any historical context before approving so-called “harsh interrogation techniques,... |
f17a1e56f2f68b49a359bd7029b07480 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/8420 | Are Gilder and Lehrman Tilting American History to the Right? A Case in Point | Are Gilder and Lehrman Tilting American History to the Right? A Case in Point
National Review
The central themes of the Hamilton exhibit announce themselves fairly garishly even before you enter. A huge, multi-colored banner stretching a full block along Central Park West reproduces the ten dollar bill (take a look in ... |
aa28ecac8893b3117894adead34a0685 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/8588 | Hotchkiss in the Fifties: Myths and Realities | Hotchkiss in the Fifties: Myths and Realities
This article was adapted from a presentation at the fiftieth reunion of the Hotchkiss Class of 1954, which was held at the Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, on October 30, 2004.
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fbef82f5c3316c03920d5f21f6d29fa7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/9245 | Why Did Truman Really Fire MacArthur? ... The Obscure History of Nuclear Weapons and the Korean War Provides the Answer | Why Did Truman Really Fire MacArthur? ... The Obscure History of Nuclear Weapons and the Korean War Provides the Answer
The media claim that North Korea is trying to obtain and use weapons of mass destruction. Yet the United States, which opposes this strategy, has used or threatened to use such weapons in northeast As... |
42d1c679f823cf13019ff6ee98e6f873 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/131559 | Cordoba: 1010, in the 20:20 of hindsight | Cordoba: 1010, in the 20:20 of hindsight
I have had brewing for a while a post about the rhetoric surrounding the proposed Islamic cultural center in New York near the erstwhile site of the World Trade Center. This takes careful phrasing, because it's absurdly tempting just to give in and call it"The Ground Zero Mosq... |
00b5d72a4a78e43733b010e6e511ddbd | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154090 | A Perfect Recipe for a Nuclear War? | A Perfect Recipe for a Nuclear War?
Murray Polner, formerly HNN's senior book review editor, blogs at There's No There There. He is the author of No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran, Branch Rickey: A Biography, and co-editor of We Who Dared Say No To War.
John LeCarre, my favorite spy novelist and for... |
6fc3530b082f75d4ddd2606074e629e0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154294 | How Tolstoy's War and Peace Can Help Us Understand History's Complexity | How Tolstoy's War and Peace Can Help Us Understand History's Complexity
David P. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor of psychology emeritus at the University of Washington; his most recent book is Through a Glass Brightly: Using science to see our species as we really are (Oxford University Press), 2018.
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89b76e4147aec3988bfdf387632e0b20 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154370 | A Renaming Everyone Can Get Behind | A Renaming Everyone Can Get Behind
For a decade at least, Washington, D.C., has been stuck in ugly political gridlock. As a step toward renewed bipartisanship, I offer this modest proposal.
At the turn of the last century, Republicans engaged in a wave of memorials and renamings for President Ronald Reagan. In 1998, a ... |
491fcbca3723a8709a7a96ab550fa77e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154401 | A Conversation with Seattle Author Dr. Lawrence Matsuda on His Debut Historical Novel "My Name is Not Viola" | A Conversation with Seattle Author Dr. Lawrence Matsuda on His Debut Historical Novel "My Name is Not Viola"
Lawrence Matsuda portrait by Alfredo Arreguin
On December 7, 1941, forces of the Japanese Empire attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor and left hundreds of American military members and civilians dead... |
10922230fcba7b724495977f48a26cc2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154473 | Congressional Leadership Experience and the Presidency | Congressional Leadership Experience and the Presidency
Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now available.
As Joe Biden is becoming President of the United States, one q... |
d9efedbd37e3f165cf35be49fb112d24 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154478 | Presidents Who Look Better or Worse by Comparison | Presidents Who Look Better or Worse by Comparison
President-elect Obama with President GW Bush and former Presidents Carter, Clinton and GHW Bush, January 7, 2009.
Photo Pete Souza, CC BY 3.0
Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama (Ro... |
cc0f4181cba2cd147f9ced4c33953e84 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154483 | Fate and Fortune in Presidential Elections | Fate and Fortune in Presidential Elections
Ronald L. Feinman is the author of Assassinations, Threats, and the American Presidency: From Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama (Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 2015). A paperback edition is now available.
Fate and fortune play a major role in the American presidency, as so many... |
3d7989f60bdae799b51391d252f7c300 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/154485 | Inequality, Labor Unrest, and Police Brutality in Early 20th Century Spokane, Washington: Jess Walter on His New Historical Novel "The Cold Millions" | Inequality, Labor Unrest, and Police Brutality in Early 20th Century Spokane, Washington: Jess Walter on His New Historical Novel "The Cold Millions"
Spokane, Washington. 1909. The City Council bans downtown speeches to curb labor agitation. The Industrial Workers of the World (the IWW—the “Wobblies”) organizes a mass ... |
0b4e937bb63a50aaaa17c4431ec9a836 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/42108 | Richard B. Frank: Review of Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, ed. Robert James Maddox | Richard B. Frank: Review of Hiroshima in History: The Myths of Revisionism, ed. Robert James Maddox
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d85b8710ef74df8907f1472c7948103c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/blog/6772 | Throwing a "crappy little country" against a wall | Throwing a "crappy little country" against a wall
sums up his philosophy of international relations:"every now and again the United States has to pick up a crappy little country and throw it against a wall just to prove we are serious."
ADDENDUM:
I have received several emails questioning the validity of the" cra... |
815bd17260252350d4520363822aece7 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/battle-actium | The Battle of Actium | The Battle of Actium
The strange battle of Actium ended decades of Roman civil war and resulted in the rise of the first Roman Emperor. Antony's seemingly irrational battle tactics destroyed him, his armies and his famed wife, Cleopatra. Conjecture over Antony's reasons for abandoning the battle and chasing Cleopatra's... |
d788c42faa8398df1a5b18ae16ccf5ae | https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/life-mary-todd-lincoln | The Life Of Mary Todd Lincoln | The Life Of Mary Todd Lincoln
Part I: The Early Years
Mary Todd Lincoln, the most criticized and misunderstood first lady, experienced more than her share of tragedy during her lifetime. From the time she was six, her life took a melancholy turn from which she never recovered. She suffered from depressive episodes and ... |
dad0682e2e5d55d1fe8c2cb02e17f626 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/siege-paris-during-franco-prussian-war | The Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War | The Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War
Through the first half of 1870 a confrontational fever with Germany spread throughout France. On July 15 Emperor Napoleon III led his nation "into one of the most disastrous wars in her history." (1) The Franco-Prussian conflict did not officially commence until July 19... |
4f1e9c84a67ee402b0cd62974b121234 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/battles/actium | Actium | Actium
The strange battle of Actium ended decades of Roman civil war and resulted in the rise of the first Roman Emperor. The seemingly irrational battle tactics of Antony destroyed himself, his armies and his famed wife, Cleopatra. Conjecture over Antony's reasons for abandoning the battle and chasing Cleopatra's sh... |
afcab931a851f8d3340899a89d5647d8 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/battles/agincourt | Agincourt | Agincourt
After the successful siege at Harfleur, Henry marched his force of about 6000 knights, archers and men-at-arms towards Calais. During his march the French army of 20,000 was able to position itself between Henry and Calais. Henry used a narrow front channeled by woodland to give his heavily outnumbered force ... |
6bafac143c102f6026f8f22c80283a4b | https://ehistory.osu.edu/battles/auburn-catletts-station-st-stephens-church | Auburn (Catlett's Station, St. Stephen's Church) | Auburn (Catlett's Station, St. Stephen's Church)
Maj. Gen. William. H. French and Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren, USA
Both sides had brigades in action. There were under 200 casualties for the two days. On October 13, Stuart, with Fitzhugh Lee and Lomax's brigades, skirmished with the rearguard of the Union III Corps near A... |
6262e8e22d2bd6d90a14b8918c9ced98 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/battles/beauge | Beauge | Beauge
Beauge was one of the first defeats for the English during the Hundred Years War. French and Scottish forces combine to raid the English possessions in Normandy. Thomas, the duke of Clarence, (Henry V's brother) attempted to intercept the allied forces. During the interception Thomas' cavalry outdistanced his in... |
d6eab2cfa0b402c3b377c9dade1d080f | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/abigail-fillmore | Abigail Fillmore | Abigail Fillmore
Abigail Fillmore was the wife of Millard Fillmore and the first of the First Ladies to hold a job after marriage. She believed that women should have equal access to higher education and had the capacity to succeed at all intellectual pursuits. Though suffering from several physical ailments, she appea... |
30756663916ffd6ea6db637245af0232 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/adolf-hitler | Adolf Hitler | Adolf Hitler
Austrian born, Adolf Hitler would rise to become the leader of Germany and one of the most hated men in all of history. Born in 1889, Hitler fought in World War I. The peace imposed on Germany after that war angered him, and the rest of his life he sought to reverse the peace that had humiliated his adopte... |
f1c13ac09d91f1844ea20d44544726b2 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/joan-of-arc | Joan of Arc (The Maid of Orleans) | Joan of Arc (The Maid of Orleans)
Canonized 16 May 1920. Joan of Arc was a peasant girl who believed she was under a divine mission to save France. In 1429, she persuaded Charles VII to let her lead a force to relieve Orleans. She led the French forces to a decisive victory at Orleans which allowed France to finally g... |
5078ba5a26d3ecedd7d5ea282527ef06 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-alexander-mcclernand | John Alexander McClernand | John Alexander McClernand
"A political general that vied with Grant for fame and control of the army, he was finally sent back to Illinois." John McClernand nurtured a long career as a public servant, serving as a legislator, a general, and a judge. He was born on May 30, 1812 in Breckenridge County, Kentucky but grew ... |
485d31270372db16c8f363176cc4f0e1 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-cabell-breckinridge | John Cabell Breckinridge | John Cabell Breckinridge
"Prior to the war, Breckinridge served as the US Vice-President under Buchanan. During the war he served as a general in the Confederate Army and later as the Confederate Secretary of War." John Breckinridge was one of the rare political generals who was good at both.
He was born in Kentucky, g... |
2a867c7326e3a9aecb7ee5e1a51eb95e | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-daniel-imboden-defender-valley | John Daniel Imboden (Defender of the Valley) | John Daniel Imboden (Defender of the Valley)
Confederate cavalry commander. Served for the entire duration of the War. Brigadier General John D. Imboden was born in Staunton, Virginia. He attended Washington College for two terms, but didn't graduate. He taught school for a while at the Virginia Institute for the Educa... |
1317ce4c5e2e7034390a635ecb509786 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-fearless | John (The Fearless) | John (The Fearless)
Years ruled: 1404 - 1419Son of: Philip the BoldMarried to: Margaret of Bavaria (1385)Children: Philip the Good John earned the moniker Fearless during a crusade he attempted to lead against the Turks in Nikopol in 1396. The crusaders were defeated and John was captured. He was ransomed a year later... |
85c00f97b0b4adebca856a71946b453f | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-gaunt | John of Gaunt | John of Gaunt
John of Gaunt (John was born in Ghent) was the fourth son of Edward III. He was one of the richest and most powerful lords in England. In 1373, John led a 600 mile raid from Calais to Bordeaux with about 10,000 men. Even though he cut straight through the middle of France the raid was without a single sie... |
912dd0b0558cbd2a3e621fcfa750f61a | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-newton | John Newton | John Newton
"Stalwart Union major general. Army engineer. Brigade, division, and corps commander, cited for bravery and achievement in several battles. Significant postwar career as U.S. Army Engineer." John Newton was born in Norfolk, Virginia on August 22, 1822, the son of a U.S. Congressman. He was a West Point grad... |
da34b162e3c3866f8f0967f43ae757e2 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-pegram | John Pegram | John Pegram
"Surrendered to McClellan early in the war but later returned to serve under Beauregard, Bragg and Kirby Smith. He was killed in actions around Petersburg." Pegram was another of the sons of the South who thought more of honor than money ' else he would not have chosen a military career. He graduated from W... |
de7d136f6fe920681bf9b6aef7d501e1 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/john-pope | John Pope | John Pope
Went from command of the Army of the Mississipi to the Army of the Potomac but alienated his troops with his infamous "Address" on taking command. In less than four months he was replaced by McClellan. John Pope was a native Kentuckian, a professional soldier, and given more responsibility than his talents me... |
8002c49822c5de119e97bda369444266 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/1965/0009 | Page 009 | Page 009
prepared for any eventuality and ready to land at Da Nang or Saigon as the situation required.
By the end of February, President Johnson had made the decision to commit a two-battalion Marine expeditionary brigade to Da Nang with the mission of protecting the base from enemy incursion. General Karch and member... |
c798645a4cd9ee7ebc6f7470bc68504b | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/1965/0016 | Page 016 | Page 016
CHAPTER 2
The 9th MEB in Vietnam
The First Weeks-Estimate of the Situation-More Marines Arrive-An Expanded Mission-Chu Lai
The First Weeks
Despite the arrival of the 9th MEB, the Marine intervention in Vietnam was still of a limited nature. The Joint Chiefs of Staff made this very clear in their landing order ... |
5cb3220424aa540b974483dc8f26896d | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/1965/0019 | Page 019 | Page 019
USMC Photo A184119
HAWK missiles move to new positions on Hill 327 from the airfield. The missiles are from Battery B, 1st LAAM Battalion.
airfield perimeter. The battalion was prepared to support these posts with a strong reaction force which could deploy rapidly to any sector of the airfield. The inherent di... |
f22b8987e2890d72305d74e7c847d1d9 | https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/1965/0024 | Page 024 | Page 024
USMCPhotoA184344
Marines from the 3d Battalion, 4th Marines have just debarked from helicopters at Phu Bai. The troops in the background, ready to embark in the same helicopter for the return trip to Da Nang, are from the 2d Battalion, 3d Marines.
While the units of the 1st Brigade and the two squadrons from t... |
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