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803dc6d02bf2b7c468a677ff4237fb60	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/135752	Property Tax Discrimination and the Question of Fair Taxation	Property Tax Discrimination and the Question of Fair Taxation In a recent interview with the conservative commentator George Will, the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Dave Camp (R-MI), offered a revealing glimpse into the underlying assumptions on the problem of taxation our new Republican majori...
24848d97c2e6abb513b353efbef566e5	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/137229	Black Playwrights Look at Slavery in New Theater Series	Black Playwrights Look at Slavery in New Theater Series The 150th anniversary of the Civil War has inspired an explosion of books, television documentaries and movies, such as Robert Redford’s upcoming The Conspirator, about the people who murdered Abraham Lincoln. Why not a theater series about slavery, the issue...
9d5acc59c1fb6120553948290fc0e4a1	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/138750	Henry Ford for President!	Henry Ford for President! The nation’s leading capitalist emerges as a surprise candidate for president. His political views range from unknown to repulsive to incoherent, but he vaults to the top of early opinion polls. He has that flair, that self-reliance, that je ne sais pas that set him apart in an undistinguish...
e098b0b3a02c3acc24864334b05ab53b	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/139372	The Last Cavalry Charge in U.S. History	The Last Cavalry Charge in U.S. History “Mount up!” On January 16, 1942, the order pealed through the sultry Bataan air. The battered, exhausted men of the 26th U.S. Calvary, of the Army’s Philippine Scouts, climbed astride their horses and flung themselves against the blazing gun muzzles of Japanese tanks. To the sh...
9255733492ba06aff5301315afa186a7	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/139377	‘Law and Order’ Meets History, 1873 Style	‘Law and Order’ Meets History, 1873 Style The Ryan Murder Case 1873 Live IN Theater Church of the Transfiguration 25 Mott St. New York, N.Y. I held my detective’s notebook firmly in my right hand and my small black umbrella in my left and trudged along the mean streets of New York in search of the killer who brutally m...
e5d7425e6f5e4ff8b0dc0f179891e7cb	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/139506	Aaron Leonard, Review of Robin Blackburn's "An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln" (Verso, 2011)	Aaron Leonard, Review of Robin Blackburn's "An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln" (Verso, 2011) One was the founder of communism, the other a pillar of American democracy. That, along with many other things, made them as different as night and day. Yet they occupied the same historic period and prof...
8d62a751ef8c4379aea88e14bc87beaa	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1398	Have Muslims in the Middle East Really Remembered the Pain of the Crusades for a Thousand Years?	Have Muslims in the Middle East Really Remembered the Pain of the Crusades for a Thousand Years? Many political figures and media in the Muslim/Arab world, and a few in Europe, now commonly refer to the American and European presence in the Middle East and elsewhere as a "Crusade." So does an occasional America...
fbc3426baf394e861eef2c1e91020751	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/140228	Jeremy Kuzmarov, Review of Peter Dale Scott's “American War Machine: Deep Politics, The CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan” (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010).	Jeremy Kuzmarov, Review of Peter Dale Scott's “American War Machine: Deep Politics, The CIA Global Drug Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan” (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010). Jeremy Kuzmarov is assistant professor of history at the University of Tulsa and author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and...
9e4e05d37d50c161ec9c4453cb63d349	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/140712	Nixon's "Decent Interval" Vietnam Strategy Should Give Obama Pause on Afghanistan	Nixon's "Decent Interval" Vietnam Strategy Should Give Obama Pause on Afghanistan Forty years ago this month, when National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger took a secret trip to China that would turn him into an international celebrity overnight once it was revealed, President Richard Nixon quietly sold South Vietnam ...
204858f9f395ba28a3128c538a3d6e92	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1408	McCarthyism: This Time It's Found a Home on the Left	McCarthyism: This Time It's Found a Home on the Left But is this really what McCarthyism was all about? To be sure, the original McCarthyites were no doubt, broadly speaking, conservatives, and certainly anticommunists. And yes, they did take aim at liberals. But of course there were conservatives and anti...
484ac2571795280f1b8925214c22e6b7	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/140862	James Bradley's "The Imperial Cruise" is an Outrage, Pure and Simple	James Bradley's "The Imperial Cruise" is an Outrage, Pure and Simple An Unhinged Ideological Polemic In The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War, author James Bradley sets out to expose Theodore Roosevelt as an arrogantly self-centered, untalented, racist, enormously destructive buffoon. Utilizing histo...
2ef9a6ee160e11cfd2b3cbd9a0922ed8	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/141525	Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant!	Kansas City Here It Comes: A New Nuclear Weapons Plant! Should the U.S. government be building more nuclear weapons? Residents of Kansas City, Missouri don’t appear to think so, for they are engaged in a bitter fight against the construction of a new nuclear weapons plant in their community. The massive plant, 1.5 mil...
d41a36cf233befa0cc5a67299f4b34e9	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/141708	New York Banned Handguns 100 Years Ago ... Will We Ever See that Kind of Gun Control Again?	New York Banned Handguns 100 Years Ago ... Will We Ever See that Kind of Gun Control Again? This month New York’s Sullivan Law enters its hundredth year, and while no birthday parties have been scheduled for the legislation that ten decades ago turned handgun ownership in the Empire State from a right to a privilege, i...
7a842e8fd91a162f5c842468d70b69f8	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/141858	Aaron Leonard: Review of Carlos Ulises Decena's "Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men" (Duke, 2011)	Aaron Leonard: Review of Carlos Ulises Decena's "Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men" (Duke, 2011) Aaron Leonard is a freelance journalist. One learns many things in Carlos Decena’s book, Tacit Subjects, but the most revealing perhaps is that gay men living in the Dominican Repub...
d2fd6900fe87c997a5d3b3f17d11ecce	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1420	The Disturbing Case of Dino Cinel	The Disturbing Case of Dino Cinel Published in 1982 to widespread acclaim, From Italy to San Francisco (Stanford University Press), a history of that city's Italian community, came to serve as the launch pad of a brilliant academic career for its author, Dino Cinel. It won him the Merle Curti Award in Socia...
da1dfeb4c72096170063bc364486053e	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/142126	We've Come a Long Way from the Effort to Memorialize the Slave Mammy	We've Come a Long Way from the Effort to Memorialize the Slave Mammy As Washington D.C. prepares for the rescheduled October 16 unveiling of the memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is worth reflecting that nine decades ago a very different national monument depicting a person of color was contemplated for the n...
d6012174e0de75ab53e4c6a5c3834e38	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1422	Historians as Activists	Historians as Activists Up Front Historians and the 2008 Election: Continuous Coverage Groups American Historical Association National Coalition for History National Council for History Education National Council for the Social Studies Organization of American Historians Historians for Obama National History DayNetwo...
6f7ff5d478020069db531a62c012489b	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/142218	Was Christopher Columbus on a religious crusade?	Was Christopher Columbus on a religious crusade? Two recent books argue that explorers Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama were more like Christian crusaders than greedy mercenaries or curious adventurers. Other historians, however, remain skeptical.The books, released in the weeks leading up to Columbus Day (Oct. 1...
85e51941dcaae9c3a77c8ae8dd60f6a4	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/142541	A Final Farewell to the Fairness Doctrine?	A Final Farewell to the Fairness Doctrine? The Fairness Doctrine, one of the most famous and controversial media policies ever debated, suffered a final death-blow recently when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) permanently struck it from the books. Often mistaken for the “equal time” rule for broadcasting p...
111314c68001f91f31090efb69ecc8c5	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/142718	What's Behind the History of Halloween?	What's Behind the History of Halloween? Vancouver Observer It's sometimes funny, sometimes frightening, sometimes strange...but without a doubt, the Halloween candies always taste good. Behind all the costumes, candies and pumpkins, there lies the strange story of Halloween... A long time ago, Halloween was merely a ce...
5202c0da523df3f394288714a6b0ed73	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/143735	Teacher's Lounge	Teacher's Lounge Index Teaching the ConstitutionTeaching HistoryTeaching World History Teaching the Middle EastTeaching 9-11Teaching Presidential ElectionsLow History IQ's History Quotes Hot TopicsInterviews with Historians General Resources 360 Education Solutions Teaching the Constitution Constitution Day Lessons Pla...
a489a4bb9b530e4f8b2a61a4d752f8fc	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/143779	Occupy Wall Street	Occupy Wall Street Worth Reading HNN Hot Topics: Occupy Wall Street Background Occupy Wall Street began on September 17, 2011, when a group of protesters, prompted by a July 13 blog post by the Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters proposed that “20,000 people flood into lower Manhattan, set up tents, kitchens, ...
9f6645c9db945f62fcdbfbc82860976e	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/144119	Adam Cathcart: Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era	Adam Cathcart: Bow Before the Portrait: Sino-North Korean Relations Enter the Kim Jong Un Era Adam Cathcart is Assistant Professor History at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington and the editor of SinoNK.com. The pigs were being slaughtered in the streets when the news of Kim Jong Il’s death arrived in Dac...
2c45cdea7e5d6c479e8caa55b46a5819	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/144325	No, Newt, the U.S. Cannot Make the Moon a State. That's Illegal Under International Law.	No, Newt, the U.S. Cannot Make the Moon a State. That's Illegal Under International Law. Leaving aside the technological challenges, fiscal unreality, and sheer oddity of Newt Gingrich’s proposal to build a “permanent base on the moon” by the end of his theoretical second term, historians might wonder: would such an Am...
c6986dabcda7907ab95aeca6e8e9b131	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/145443	Aaron Leonard: Review of Geoffrey Roberts's "Molotov: Stalin's Cold Warrior" (Potomac, 2011)	Aaron Leonard: Review of Geoffrey Roberts's "Molotov: Stalin's Cold Warrior" (Potomac, 2011) Aaron Leonard is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to HNN.Geoffrey Roberts introduces us to Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov in 1976, long after he has left power. Molotov tell us, “Not often, but sometimes I dream of ...
f813aa6704bcf0574044c4a2b455d7f8	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/145689	John Nichols: Some of the Earliest Republicans were Buddy-Buddy with Karl Marx	John Nichols: Some of the Earliest Republicans were Buddy-Buddy with Karl Marx John Nichols is the author of The "S" Word: A Short History of a American Tradition—Socialism (Verso).Florida Congressman Allen West was wrong when he suggested that there were dozens of communists in the current Congress. Misled by crank we...
4f59013ee823b7f0d7866272eeb1c541	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/146031	CNN's Conspiracy Bias in the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination	CNN's Conspiracy Bias in the Robert F. Kennedy Assassination Not so long ago the mainstream media dismissed far-fetched tales of conspiracy and marginalized conspiracy theorists to the outer reaches of news-land. News organizations knew that every now and then bogus "witnesses" would appear claiming to reveal low skull...
9ac0e53798c69c0324140fddee75dce5	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/146405	Slavery and the Myth of the Alamo	Slavery and the Myth of the Alamo Two and a half million people visit the Alamo each year where, according to its website, “men made the ultimate sacrifice for freedom,” making it “hallowed ground and the Shrine of Texas Liberty.” There can be no doubt that the symbolism of the Alamo is at the center of the creation my...
c9efbc803b8e9c3b0d66ed8f7505f078	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/146446	Drugs, Fires and Murder in New York: Welcome to Life on the Street in 1975	Drugs, Fires and Murder in New York: Welcome to Life on the Street in 1975 The Lombardi Case LiveIn Theater 154 Ludlow Street New York, New York There are eight million stories in the naked city and this is one of them. Christina Nicole Lombardi was the rebellious, good looking daughter of a U.S. senator from Connectic...
31d9123e76655bfc3c2445ee01ac7990	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/146694	Emily Johnson: Review of Michelle Nickerson's "Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right" (Princeton, 2012)	Emily Johnson: Review of Michelle Nickerson's "Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right" (Princeton, 2012) Emily Johnson is a graduate student at Yale University, where she is completing a dissertation on the role that prominent women played in shaping the politics of the New Christian Right in the 1970s an...
c7320b54f4c9105b260362fa01c3c5af	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/146700	A Play about a Civil War Prisoner Debuts in a Real Civil War Prison	A Play about a Civil War Prisoner Debuts in a Real Civil War Prison AmeliaFort JayNew York, NY Monuments at Andersonville National Historic Site, 2007 (From Wikipedia) I walked down the cold, damp stone hallway of Fort Jay to the powder magazine, enclosed in thick walls more than 200 years old, shivering from the chill...
3fc4b6bd320b2cc7b60e2adf1a4cc94d	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/146894	Science Relevant to History	Science Relevant to History Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff. Click HERE for our most recent articles. HNN Blogs (R)evolutionary Biology By David P. Barash Stone Age Brain By Rick Shenkman Memory Study of Memory in Psychology Quirks of Memory Everyone Should Know How Memory Speaks By Jerome Groopman How Not to be the Ne...
3fbaa4db443b28300d7acbec30fddbf5	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/147149	What is the Least Credible History Book in Print?	What is the Least Credible History Book in Print? David Barton's The Jefferson Lies Voted the Least Credible History Book in PrintReaders of the History News Network have voted David Barton's The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believe About Thomas Jefferson the least credible history book in print in ...
bac2f560e87995f7048cea5b1e87a4f8	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/147155	Russia's Architect of Victory: Interview with Geoffrey Roberts on Georgy Zhukov	Russia's Architect of Victory: Interview with Geoffrey Roberts on Georgy Zhukov Geoffrey Roberts is the author of Stalin’s Wars and Victory at Stalingrad. He is professor and head of the School of History at University College Cork, Ireland. Roberts is a frequent contributor to British, Irish, and American newspapers a...
b819ef789f45cd26b87e2e1fef720560	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/147414	The Cuban Missile Crisis: The View from Okinawa	The Cuban Missile Crisis: The View from Okinawa A TM-72 Mace missile is trundled through the Okinawa city of Gushikawa in the early 1960s in a rare open display. Courtesy of Charles Headlee. In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear war after American spy planes discovered...
348513378e43d5bcadb13d852462d2e6	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/147641	Did Monica Lewinsky Really Save Social Security?	Did Monica Lewinsky Really Save Social Security? Bill Clinton delivers his 1997 State of the Union address. Credit: NARA. After Bill Clinton was reelected president in 1996, he was looking for a domestic-policy issue that would cement his legacy and seal his comeback against a conservative Republican leadership in Cong...
9efc25a9546baac4d046dcc42841ca3a	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/147885	HNN Hot Topics: Barack Obama: 2012 Election	HNN Hot Topics: Barack Obama: 2012 Election Barack Obama preparing for a press conference, 2009. Credit: Wikipedia Related Links Mitt Romney Paul Ryan Election 2012: General Election 2012: Primaries News President Obama: Historian-in-chief (7-4-12) What do historians really think of Obama? (6-8-12) Allan Lichtman: Obam...
b76fd221c5ec97aa4847a05ddef84976	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/148259	The Forgotten Los Angeles Race Riot: Interview with Historian Scott Zesch on the Chinatown Massacre of 1871	The Forgotten Los Angeles Race Riot: Interview with Historian Scott Zesch on the Chinatown Massacre of 1871 Downtown Los Angeles in 1869. Credit: Los Angeles Public Library When Los Angeles and race riot are mentioned in the same breath, the words may conjure for most the jittery newsreel images of fires and looting af...
d3665afbaef5b303aa6cc0c0f5fd7bcb	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/148379	The Last Time America Had So Many Two-Term Presidents was the 1820s	The Last Time America Had So Many Two-Term Presidents was the 1820s James Monroe, the last member of the "Virginia dynasty," in his official portrait. American politics travels today at warp speed, with change rather than continuity a hallmark of the accelerated pace and communications of contemporary campaigns. Three ...
cc1dcf78eb5f7cadf9c267cc6485e8e6	https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/148754	What If Nixon Had Been President During the Cuban Missile Crisis?	What If Nixon Had Been President During the Cuban Missile Crisis? Credit: Flickr/Wikimedia Commons/HNN. Fifty years ago this month, the world got lucky. With a show of force and a secret trade, President John F. Kennedy persuaded Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to dismantle a clandestine nuclear missile base the U.S. ...