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e33ecd150b6311605418224426c53c26 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156929 | Can Anyone Acquainted with American History Really Take Obama's Nationalist Drivel Seriously? | Can Anyone Acquainted with American History Really Take Obama's Nationalist Drivel Seriously?
After thousands of years of bloody wars among contending tribes,
regions, and nations, is it finally possible to dispense with the
chauvinist ideas of the past?
To judge by President Barack Obama’s televised
address on the ... |
3d7687be2059213cc5b869c520839c33 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156982 | iPhone 6, American Values, Beauty, and Our Environmental Crisis | iPhone 6, American Values, Beauty, and Our Environmental Crisis
On April 9th
Apple’s CEO Timothy
Cook’s show-and-tell created media frenzy as he
revealed
the new iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and Apple Watch, a minicomputer to
be worn on one’s wrist. Some media also repeated Cook’s previous
words, “Our whole role in l... |
1b423ac9d9ba01297f055bf44ef3f62f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156983 | What’s Curious about This Picture? | What’s Curious about This Picture?
The field sketch above is by combat artist Alfred R. Waud, one of two pictorial correspondents to cover Gettysburg, July 1-3, 1863. The picture purports to show a phase of Pickett’s Charge on July 3, as rebels try to roll up Union General Winfield Scott Hancock’s left flank, caving h... |
742e2fd6463989a8b47e0374c7bdf051 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157059 | In World War II these Two British Sisters Worked as Spies. Then the War Ended and so Did Their Chance for a Liberated Life | In World War II these Two British Sisters Worked as Spies. Then the War Ended and so Did Their Chance for a Liberated Life
At
the end of World War I the women who had filled the peacetime roles,
made vacant while the men were away fighting, found themselves back
at the kitchen sink; housewives once more with their ... |
a7f82d3dfa1568db76194a8d3775a9af | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157094 | Three Things to Keep In Mind When You Are Trying to Write Compelling History | Three Things to Keep In Mind When You Are Trying to Write Compelling History
On the brilliantly clear afternoon of June 19, 1862, in the second year of the great Civil War, a well-dressed, bespectacled Confederate congressman with a trim beard named Alexander Robinson Boteler stood on a platform at the train station in... |
c1af3e60f917ecc941d5f6a0ad5cff72 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157196 | The Rise of the ISIS Terrorist Army in Iraq and Syria: How Did we Get Here? | The Rise of the ISIS Terrorist Army in Iraq and Syria: How Did we Get Here?
This June when an ISIS
army of 7,000 Sunni fighters stormed north and conquered Mosul,
Iraq’s second largest city, and much of northern Iraq, it appeared
to many as if the terrorists had come out of the blue. But for those
watching Iraq and... |
dcdd727eb7be4acc3f52c36f797d4e21 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157207 | Radicals Have Taken Over Northern Yemen. Should We Be Worried? | Radicals Have Taken Over Northern Yemen. Should We Be Worried?
The fall of the Yemeni government to radical Zaidi tribesmen from Saadah in the north has gone relatively unremarked in the US mass media.
Yemen is admittedly a relatively small country of 24 million, a little less populous than Texas. It is the second poo... |
533f9072e1ac59f8a0d7d6e9202536b1 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157272 | Why the History Curriculum Matters | Why the History Curriculum Matters
With
new guidelines for teaching the Advanced Placement U.S. History
curriculum going into effect this fall, protests and counter-protests
have spilled out from the meeting rooms of state and local school
boards to the streets of Colorado, attracting the attention of media
outlet... |
ded1adaf0181391327c0971ad2b58c52 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157273 | Why We Felt It Was Essential to Publish an Anti-Boycott Book | Why We Felt It Was Essential to Publish an Anti-Boycott Book
Early this year my colleague Gabriel
Brahm and I approached a series of academics with an unusual request.
Higher education was facing an increasing number of struggles over
the pressure to boycott Israeli universities. Academic freedom had
long supported... |
8b3e7a087c1f6bb175dd99582cf1bcfd | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157287 | It's Been Two Years Since Sandy: The Lesson We Missed | It's Been Two Years Since Sandy: The Lesson We Missed
The term “perfect
storm” conjures up inevitability. Converging extreme weather
conditions lead to certain death and destruction. But in fact, the
way a storm interacts with human communities is anything but certain.
Hurricane Sandy was an imperfect storm. It's ... |
272ed8676571552db203b7d4cda58e7f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157383 | This Is Where Ebola First Struck in 1976 and What Happened | This Is Where Ebola First Struck in 1976 and What Happened
It began in
Nzara, a town inhabited by 20,000 people living in thatch-roofed
houses within the dense woods in southern Sudan. Roughly five percent
of the population worked in a large cotton factory that was owned by
an even larger agricultural company. The ... |
abd7aef522a729cf99491590dab1047a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157385 | Review of Stanley Aronowitz's “The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement” | Review of Stanley Aronowitz's “The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement”
Stanley Aronowitz is again challenging American workers to
rethink their place in the economy. Beginning with “False
Promises” (1973), and as an activist and historian, he has been
critical of the labor movement an... |
8a908bee72bace5d2ff8779feb4f4b29 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157652 | Donate to HNN Today | Donate to HNN Today
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57aecf92d3bce118d63f3194d7244b90 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157689 | The Myth of Thanksgiving | The Myth of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is the favorite holiday of many US Americans; unlike the rather boring or divisive holidays that honor Columbus, Presidents, Martin Luther King, Jr., Independence, veterans and war, the birth of a religion, and a new year, Thanksgiving is centered on sharing food with family and fr... |
f6844878be9ac0286727a73f1b11e819 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157690 | Is Globalization the New Paradigm for History? | Is Globalization the New Paradigm for History?
Globalization is not
new as a phenomenon but the word itself took hold only recently. The
Oxford English Dictionary records a first use in English in 1930 (in
a different context, moreover), and a Google n-gram of
“globalization” shows that usage soared suddenly in the... |
d57f3ea3a0b45e373bad844367272956 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157691 | Thanksgiving Used to Look a Lot Like Halloween, Except More Racist | Thanksgiving Used to Look a Lot Like Halloween, Except More Racist
Thanksgiving used to look a lot more like Halloween. The practice of dressing up in costumes and asking for candy didn't become common in the U.S. until the 1940s and 1950s; before then, people trick-or-treated—or, well, did something that resembled tri... |
1597abd59bf5df032d81f8d04d6fbcd2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157692 | Why Americans Call Turkey 'Turkey' | Why Americans Call Turkey 'Turkey'
"Turkey" the bird is native to North America. But "turkey" the word is a geographic mess—a tribute to the vagaries of colonial trade and conquest. As you might have suspected, the English term for the avian creature likely comes from Turkey the country. Or, more precisely, from Turkis... |
660c7bbe0e3811c34e30047a63f1bb73 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157705 | On Thanksgiving Day, Remember Fast Day | On Thanksgiving Day, Remember Fast Day
Americans have forgotten Fast Day, although it once was as important a holiday as Thanksgiving. In fact, it was paired with Thanksgiving and considered its necessary complement. Thanksgiving and Fast Day originated together in colonial New England. Most Americans think Thanksgivin... |
2aa7e3e71199c37cec7df2c12317f646 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157706 | Thanksgiving was always about Climate and Adaptation: Let’s Make it Green Again | Thanksgiving was always about Climate and Adaptation: Let’s Make it Green Again
The popular story about Thanksgiving is an environmental parable that we would do well to remember today. It was a harvest festival in 1621, participated in by the 50 (out of 100) survivors at Plymouth Plantation and 90 Native Americans. So... |
a3678e300c563b0298cd9496ef73eeac | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157743 | David Barton's ongoing refusal to admit his mistakes, even after being confronted by Christian historians | David Barton's ongoing refusal to admit his mistakes, even after being confronted by Christian historians
In August 2012, Thomas Nelson (now part of Harper Collins Christian) pulled David Barton’s book The Jefferson Lies from publication. This rare move by Thomas Nelson took place in the midst of efforts by several peo... |
f36dc2b3680ab65bd00c80785ecd64e0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157752 | Dear Mitch McConnell: It’s Time to End the Filibuster | Dear Mitch McConnell: It’s Time to End the Filibuster
Ted Cruz filibuster in 2013. He spoke for 21 hours and 19 minutes.
When the new Republican Senate convenes in January, I hope incoming Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will share my interest in changing a key Senate rule. The filibuster – the provision that allows ... |
ce9e058abeb30d95d49aa50d5d747a39 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157819 | The Tough Guy Screen Detectives of the 1930s and 1940s Are Back | The Tough Guy Screen Detectives of the 1930s and 1940s Are Back
There is trouble in the world today?
Serial killers? Arsonists? The thugs of ISIS? Don’t bother with the
CIA, FBI, Interpol or the NYPD. Get Sam Spade!
Spade was one of the famous tough guy
detectives in literature and film, created by Dashiell Hammett ... |
83c90d016073231e7016213fee2767f0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157821 | Hard Truths about Britain’s Entry into World War I | Hard Truths about Britain’s Entry into World War I
In
October 2012 Prime Minister David Cameron announced that Britain
would mark the centenary of the Great War with a “commemoration
that captures our national spirit.” However, some commentators were
uneasy that the ceremonies would not be nationalist enough. Durin... |
92a46cff2059135d1cf8228480d52194 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157874 | The Surprising Legacy of the Black Panther Party in Chicago | The Surprising Legacy of the Black Panther Party in Chicago
In February 2015 the University of North Carolina Press will publish the paperback edition of Jakobi Williams’s book, From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago. The book takes a part... |
3127c88a00547c985b719447fdd492ac | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157878 | The CIA's Phony Defense | The CIA's Phony Defense
When
does an intelligence agency become worthless?Good
question. A fair answer: when it stops speaking truth to power—or
anyone else. I am sad to say the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
has crossed that line. One can understand their motives—protect
friends and colleagues, a misplaced sen... |
a7117dff7a78d1fe8d008ef69f7356d0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157883 | Polio Boulevard: Karen Chase Recalls Her Childhood Illness, Her Complicated Recovery, and Her “Small History” (Interview) | Polio Boulevard: Karen Chase Recalls Her Childhood Illness, Her Complicated Recovery, and Her “Small History” (Interview)
History is confusing. I have come to see that history is like a
braid
that you and I and everyone else interweave. History is big,
history
is small. History happened to you and to everyone else t... |
5c04594a27c3f08f4ac20f32c4045637 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157907 | Review of George W. Bush’s "41: A Portrait of My Father" | Review of George W. Bush’s "41: A Portrait of My Father"
In
November 2014, George Walker Bush, forty-third president of the
United States (hereafter “43”), published a book about the
forty-first president, George Herbert Walker Bush (hereafter “41”).
He is the second former
president to have written a book about... |
2ae6c46ebcb37505b287b6a8017e85a1 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157950 | How to Read the Senate Report on CIA Torture | How to Read the Senate Report on CIA Torture
Introduction:
The recent Senate Intelligence Committee’s
report on CIA torture is arguably the single most important U.S.
government document released to date in this still-young 21st
century. Yet even with all its richly revealing detail about the
CIA’s recourse to tort... |
33ac3420a304e01abdec1abf35ec2364 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157958 | The astounding record of United States interventions in Latin America | The astounding record of United States interventions in Latin America
In the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times. That amounts to once every 28 months for an entire century (see table).
... |
8568ee427cdae4fd32e7070e10e179d7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157969 | Are We a Great Nation? | Are We a Great Nation?
Now we know a lot more about the role of torture in
America. A summary
of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s Detention
and Interrogation Program is now available for all to read. The full
Committee study is more than 6700 pages long and is still classified.
It is the resul... |
c6763e8407b3e983c255893e15d5261b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/157973 | The Unsuspecting Thing Conservative Historian David Barton Did With $1 Million Awarded to Him in Defamation Lawsuit | The Unsuspecting Thing Conservative Historian David Barton Did With $1 Million Awarded to Him in Defamation Lawsuit
Conservative historian David Barton has given away the money he won as the result of a $1 million judgement issued earlier this year in a defamation lawsuit he brought against two Democratic Texas State B... |
6a4958ab8605ee2bb5c1a2253793390b | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158021 | The 2015 AHA Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything | The 2015 AHA Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everything
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5eea21a0a293bf11b50a097e356dfa8d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158160 | Europeans Need to Reconsider the Lessons of the Great Depression | Europeans Need to Reconsider the Lessons of the Great Depression
It’s
hard to regard America’s recovery from the financial crisis of
2008-9 as a rousing success. But by two standards it is. First, the
country’s performance is dramatically better than in the Great
Depression of the 1930s. This comparison is stac... |
3cfcc3cd520ea51fb54f6afb9c95d168 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158161 | Review of Rick Perlstein's "The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan" | Review of Rick Perlstein's "The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan"
The
Invisible Bridge
is the latest volume in journalist and historian Rick Perlstein’s
trilogy on the rise of the modern conservative movement. After
volumes focusing upon Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon, Perlstein’s
Th... |
1b58472e6eccac1f7ea422bff587f429 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158168 | The Paris Tragedy and the War Within Islam | The Paris Tragedy and the War Within Islam
No other world faith has
had as difficult a time adjusting to modernity, capitalism,
liberalism, democracy, commercialism and women’s rights as Islam,
especially its radical elements. The news is replete with stories of
rage, violence, slaughter, war, and terrorism in Musl... |
decddefff164743d78397402a0351ed4 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158204 | Review of Jason Sokol’s “All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn" | Review of Jason Sokol’s “All Eyes Are Upon Us: Race and Politics from Boston to Brooklyn"
Growing up,
I felt proud when the majority of votes in my hometown of Great Neck, N.Y.,
supported George McGovern in the 1972 Nixon landslide. Only one state in the country plus the
District of Columbia went with the anti-war M... |
f7dc4f94f141494569140a46a2c1c789 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158260 | Thomas Bailey Project: Historical Myths to Beware Of! | Thomas Bailey Project: Historical Myths to Beware Of!
Thomas Bailey was fascinated with historical myths. He wrote several books about them and in 1968 devoted his presidential address to the Organization of American Historians to the subject. In his address he noted that myths are being debunked by scholars all the ... |
c8109c1ce5f00f3a846d61fb25751887 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158263 | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Congress of Vienna that Influence Us Today | 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Congress of Vienna that Influence Us Today
Two
hundred years ago, European rulers were in the midst of what may well
have been the most extravagant celebration in history—the “Congress
of Vienna.” After more than two decades of war against
Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, it ... |
a590f642cc7d94421190563986a5c7d0 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158274 | 5 Ways Pirate Ships Functioned as a True Democracy | 5 Ways Pirate Ships Functioned as a True Democracy
Over time, the myth of the pirate has
generated the image of a rugged, foul man with an elaborate hat, an
eye patch, and a peg leg. The men of the tales are brutal and
unforgiving, forcing captives to walk the plank, and mercilessly
plundering ships at sea. What’s ... |
cd809da6843a92e85742f1f40d6b1b4e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158279 | The Secret of Abraham Lincoln’s Success as a Writer? | The Secret of Abraham Lincoln’s Success as a Writer?
Abraham Lincoln’s
formal education was remarkably sparse for a man who later became
president. By his own estimate, his schooldays amounted to less than
a year altogether, and these were passed in poorly equipped frontier
classrooms. He wrote dismissively in his ... |
9056d87e3a86518d38b9444226c24cac | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158313 | The Missing Chapter in the History of America’s Sixties Radicals | The Missing Chapter in the History of America’s Sixties Radicals
The RCP, RSB, and its front groups,
identified as the VVAW, UWOC, and USCPFA, represent a threat to the
internal security of the United States of the first magnitude.
—FBI report on the
Revolutionary Communist
Party, September 6, 1976
The story of six... |
ab12a5c9458143be1a593bc64d0ce484 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158425 | The Key to the Success of Homo Sapiens | The Key to the Success of Homo Sapiens
Homo Sapiens (Wikipedia)
Related Link What Historians Can Learn from the Social Sciences and Sciences
The ability to create an imagined reality out of words enabled large
numbers of strangers to cooperate effectively. But it also did something more. Since large-scale human coope... |
f68a78c392020db31b9199980e721183 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158484 | “So Help Me God” and the Presidential Oath | “So Help Me God” and the Presidential Oath
In
2009, Peter
Henriques
made a startling announcement in an oft-cited piece for History News
Network: There is “absolutely no extant contemporary evidence,”
he wrote, to support the traditional story that George Washington
added the phrase “so help me God” to the presid... |
e9eaf50c8c6e8669d426f73d8c1ac292 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158652 | This Is What Bipartisanship Looks Like – In Case You’ve Forgotten | This Is What Bipartisanship Looks Like – In Case You’ve Forgotten
President John Kennedy and Congressman Charles A. Halleck
Bitter partisanship has always been commonplace
in American politics. It is, nonetheless, notable that there are no
signs today of across the aisle collaboration or civility, not to
mention fri... |
da367d7752ed4dde648041a3c8d9bb30 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158654 | Was Hitler a Normal Leader? | Was Hitler a Normal Leader?
Although he
died near 70 years ago, Adolf Hitler has never been more alive.
Consider the fact that the bestselling novel in Germany over the past
eighteen months, Timur Vermes’s Er
ist wieder da (in English: Look
Who’s Back) features the
Führer unaccountably coming back to life in pre... |
6c16b8d9230add408773973a8e8aa43e | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158778 | Things Shakespeare Got Wrong About the Ides of March | Things Shakespeare Got Wrong About the Ides of March
The senators encircle Caesar. A 19th-century interpretation of the event by Carl Theodor von Piloty. Wikipedia
The Ides of March are almost come again and, before they’re gone,
we’ll think of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. We love the
play because it sings – it turns... |
d880dbd8321fff2605aff58ed3ea1379 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158797 | What Standards Should Be Applied When Deciding to Accept Funds? | What Standards Should Be Applied When Deciding to Accept Funds?
Editor's Note In advance of publication we gave ASEEES and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), the two organizations named in this article, the opportunity to provide a response. Their responses appear below. The authors' reply follows.
... |
91a1ade9289f49b2e45f03548e1d19e5 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158915 | We Had American Sniper Chris Kyle. The Enemy Had Juba the Baghdad Sniper. | We Had American Sniper Chris Kyle. The Enemy Had Juba the Baghdad Sniper.
The
ultimate nemesis in the recent Hollywood blockbuster America
Sniper is a
semi-mythical Arab sniper known as “Mustafa” who systematically
wreaks havoc on US troops in Iraq. Not only does he kill the friend
of elite US SEAL sniper Chris K... |
40f4ab6c9b83e4c2ebf150088c17e780 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158957 | Why Yemen Matters | Why Yemen Matters
The Middle East witnessed something radically new two days ago, when the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia responded to a plea by Yemen's president and led a 10-country coalition to intervene in the air and on the ground in the country. "Operation Decisive Storm" prompts many reflections:
Saudi and Egypt in all... |
011518135205a8497dd8ddc9a6076627 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158966 | How Historians Lost Their Public | How Historians Lost Their Public
Related Link Historians May Never Rule the World, but Their Models will Rule the Data-Driven Future By Jo Guldi and David Armitage
At the annual meeting of the American Historical Association early this year, several well-attended sessions raised an issue much on historians’ minds: Do w... |
03c80b6e70a83e74c03d2a6a724c4edd | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/158989 | Vladimir Putin: History Man? | Vladimir Putin: History Man?
The fourth chapter of Mr.
Putin: Operative in the Kremlin (expanded ed., 2015), an
excellent work by Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy, is entitled “History
Man.” The authors write: “Vladimir Putin is a self-designated
student of history. He claims it was his favorite subject in school,
an... |
b337dd0fe38bf987296357c4fc2a1442 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159002 | Nasser’s Ghost Hovers Over Yemen | Nasser’s Ghost Hovers Over Yemen
When Saudi Arabia and its allies began to bomb Yemen last week, it was not the first time that Yemen’s neighbors turned the country into a battleground. Both the Obama administration and the Saudi monarchy would do well to recall the last time Yemen became a pawn in regional power strug... |
920666e719453d590962261fa745647c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159020 | Austrian Economics: Made in the USA | Austrian Economics: Made in the USA
Austrian Economics, as it is commonly
understood today, was born seventy years ago this month. Associated
with laissez-faire economics and libertarianism, the movement has
primarily built its intellectual and ideological foundation on the
works of two men, Friedrich Hayek and Lud... |
f27a0e0bc5ea5db0d1cac72df19c52eb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159046 | The United States Isn’t the Only Country Still Trying to Figure Out the Vietnam War | The United States Isn’t the Only Country Still Trying to Figure Out the Vietnam War
Forty years ago this month, the savage
war in Vietnam ended dramatically with North Vietnamese tanks
crashing through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon. As
Americans continue to struggle over the legacies of the Vietnam ... |
0b08f2e3eeb24ae004d3b7b1cd878a50 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159056 | Capturing History as it Really Happened in October 1962 (Part 1) | Capturing History as it Really Happened in October 1962 (Part 1)
President Kennedy meets in the Oval Office with General Curtis LeMay - Wikipedia
Historians
are obviously familiar with research based on old or new primary
sources as well as with work that synthesizes both primary and
secondary sources. Historical in... |
fc7d8a00bb12f15a7f0633461375e6bb | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159081 | Two Things You Don’t Know About Roe v. Wade that Will Surprise You | Two Things You Don’t Know About Roe v. Wade that Will Surprise You
January 22, 1973 is
the date that most associate with Roe v. Wade. That is the
day when Justice Harry Blackmun read a summary of the Supreme Court’s
decision in Roe and that of its companion case, Doe v.
Bolton. Every year there are demonstrations... |
169c4521767da1c4abd34c5c3944bdbc | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159087 | Remembering our Greatest Mission | Remembering our Greatest Mission
Food being dropped into the Netherlands from a U.S. Eighth Air Force plane in May, 1945. The food drops British and American planes saved millions from starvation.
It
was 70 years ago this spring when the U.S. Air Force undertook what
one pilot called the greatest mission he had ever ... |
27da2a7c30a3229262a08ce29d4c7310 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159116 | A Confederate General and His Slave | A Confederate General and His Slave
Edward Porter Alexander - Wikipedia
The Confederate rank and file said
goodbye to many things in and around Appomattox Court House in the
days following the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern
Virginia on April 9, 1865. Three days following the formal surrender
Lee's me... |
99efe6708ab34683154fb69f13dc6810 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159176 | Whatever Happened to the Environmental Movement? | Whatever Happened to the Environmental Movement?
Today, April 22,
marks forty-five years since the first Earth Day. On this day in
1970, millions of people of all ages, politics, and regions of the
country participated in thousands of locally planned events.
Teach-ins, rallies, protests, and gatherings and discussi... |
10d7d5e4d6ac130b57c28058df431042 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159182 | Review of Barry Eichengreen’s “Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History” | Review of Barry Eichengreen’s “Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses – and Misuses – of History”
Related Link Europeans Need to Reconsider the Lessons of the Great Depression By Barry Eichengreen
Economists
and journalists have published numerous books that attempt to explain
the f... |
957d04408525ac0681f28fb09c1e002f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159199 | Power, Crime and Race in the Watergate Era: An Interview with Forensic Psychologist Jay Richards | Power, Crime and Race in the Watergate Era: An Interview with Forensic Psychologist Jay Richards
Every action carries a
motive from the past.
Jay Richards, Silhouette
of Virtue
A
small college town in southern Illinois in 1973 provides the setting
for Dr. Jay Richards’ debut novel, Silhouette of Virtue. As
the co... |
690a358a2c349f06df59e6ae7090993d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159214 | Thomas A. Bailey: Dead and Forgotten by His Publisher? | Thomas A. Bailey: Dead and Forgotten by His Publisher?
This is the latest edition.
The first volume of
The American Pageant, a current college text whose cover and
title page bear the names of David M. Kennedy of Stanford and
Lizabeth Cohen of Harvard, contains this passage:
Lincoln also had his troubles, but on th... |
f38861ab52c12eb1e710ae2bf2d91a80 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159255 | Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination: An Interview With Robeson Taj Frazier | Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination: An Interview With Robeson Taj Frazier
In the late 1950s and early 1960s certain Black intellectuals,
activists, journalists, and others became fascinated with the Peoples
Republic of China. In his new book, The
East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagi... |
8954d4f433d7d17c03bbe626694398d7 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159294 | What Else You Should Know About Baltimore | What Else You Should Know About Baltimore
Recent
Baltimore protests over the police homicide of Freddie Gray were
about much more than the killing of a young black man. The legacy of
slavery is deep in a city many consider to be outside the South. “The
Monumental City” as it was known in the 1820s was at the headwa... |
d99c2da659c8e411867eacde879947ef | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159301 | The History Wars in Ukraine Are Heating Up | The History Wars in Ukraine Are Heating Up
A poster equating communism and Nazism.
On April 9, 2015
the Ukrainian parliament passed a package of legislation regulating historical
memory. Two laws in particular have
provoked a Historikerstreit that may define the country’s image at home
and abroad.
Law No. 2558, “O... |
1feedef342f3b835d810d2db79090716 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159335 | The US Senate Salutes Historian | The US Senate Salutes Historian
Related Link McConnell, Reid Agree on One Thing: Don Ritchie Rocks
Senate historian Donald Ritchie is stepping down from his "front-row seat to the best show in town."
That is the tradition, scandal and scholarly debate of the United States Senate, which Ritchie has observed and written ... |
91e3d985f2437114be2da3a0a1e2a855 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159342 | Talking Honestly About Islamic Hate Speech | Talking Honestly About Islamic Hate Speech
Muhammad on a camel and Jesus on a donkey
(Are images allowed?)
On May 3-4, 2015, Boston University
(BU) was the site of “Apocalyptic Hopes, Millennial Dreams and
Global Jihad”—a conference jointly sponsored by they BU History
Department, Center for Millennial
Studies (CM... |
be7af6b815b4176cc034959b80c6657d | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159403 | Yes, Congress Has a Role in Foreign Affairs | Yes, Congress Has a Role in Foreign Affairs
Emerging from the White House are Senator Charles L. McNary, Minority leader; Sen. Warren Austin of Vermont; Sen. Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee; Sen. William E. Borah of Idaho, and Secretary of State Cordell Hull (1939). Source: Library of Congress.... |
3f15ac39d15ff3192b07de324af28105 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159421 | On Our Evolving Knowledge of the Brain and Nervous System: An Interview with Dr. Mitchell Glickstein | On Our Evolving Knowledge of the Brain and Nervous System: An Interview with Dr. Mitchell Glickstein
We are our brains. Dr. Mitchell Glickstein
It seems that we read almost weekly accounts of the work of today’s
neuroscientists who report stunning advances in our understanding of
the brain and the nervous system as ... |
f3300b9ad8976106e477b64eed9d7a59 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159434 | The Hypocritical and Shameful History of the Democratic Party Before the Civil War | The Hypocritical and Shameful History of the Democratic Party Before the Civil War
Hoosier William Kennedy was apoplectic
in July 1854. “We may expect no better of such as Douglas and
Pettit and all the Northern Doughfaces that Followed in their wake,”
Kennedy wrote furiously to his congressman. “They have made
t... |
95e3e393659b0502849e167fd1fdc9b3 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159458 | Review of Richard Drake’s "The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert M. LaFollette and U.S. Expansion" | Review of Richard Drake’s "The Education of an Anti-Imperialist: Robert M. LaFollette and U.S. Expansion"
With
the imminent formal entrance of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker into
the crowded field of Republican Party Presidential contenders, it is
well worth remembering that the state of Wisconsin has a progressiv... |
5fa2063089256b86c7c07d54a3f947a4 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159476 | Review of Godfrey Hodgson’s “JFK and LBJ: The Last two Great Presidents” | Review of Godfrey Hodgson’s “JFK and LBJ: The Last two Great Presidents”
According
to Godfrey Hodgson, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were our “last
two great presidents” because no-one since has believed the federal
government could do very much to help all Americans.
Hodgson,
whose take on both men is sharp-eye... |
bb44c98fb15982b59798b7a8ded29716 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159477 | Corporate Welfare Fails to Deliver the Jobs: The Sad Case of Start-Up NY | Corporate Welfare Fails to Deliver the Jobs: The Sad Case of Start-Up NY
The idea of programs to provide public
sector jobs for the unemployed reaches back deep into American
history. To alleviate the unemployment accompanying the Panic of
1893, Coxey’s
Army -- a popular protest campaign -- called for the
creati... |
a61011f500cf5a0efbd31e047610b490 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159482 | Florida professor to burn Confederate flag | Florida professor to burn Confederate flag
Related Links
● Artists burn Confederate flag in 13 Southern states
● Video of the event staged by Julian Chambliss
A college professor plans to burn a Confederate flag on Memorial Day as a way to let go of a part of history, according to a report from WKMG.
"That part of ou... |
b10d7ab42a567c0303939c8898620ade | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159495 | New Study: The world's a lot more violent than reported | New Study: The world's a lot more violent than reported
It has a dreary name: "On the tail risk of violent conflict and its underestimation." But this new paper by social scientists Pasquale Cirillo and Nassim Nicholas Taleb could rewrite the history of violence.
It takes direct aim at the thesis of Harvard evolutiona... |
1d2c2b725d9a600fa6a20684b036431a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159518 | Historian investigates claim that Bugsy Siegel wanted to kill Goring | Historian investigates claim that Bugsy Siegel wanted to kill Goring
In the 1991 film Bugsy, Warren Beatty portrayed Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel as a man with an obsession, not only to build a fabulous resort casino in Las Vegas, but also to murder the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. In one scene a swaggering Siegel tel... |
cb6449a675c72b18d0f3f82352911538 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159519 | The Texas Textbook Controversy. It's Part of a Long, Awful, Tradition. | The Texas Textbook Controversy. It's Part of a Long, Awful, Tradition.
Recently, the Texas State Board of Education faced a firestorm of protest, from conservatives and liberals alike, over the statewide adoption of textbooks for teaching history. On November 21, 2014, the Board approved the use of 89 social studies t... |
171e21c4447195c48ece15cb898da494 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159526 | Theodore Roosevelt: An Old West Sheriff in the White House | Theodore Roosevelt: An Old West Sheriff in the White House
President
Obama’s recent announcement that he will sign an executive order to
prevent the nation’s police from using combat equipment that
“militarizes” their function grates on the ear of law-and-order
conservatives, who believe that maintaining an orderly... |
602efa1fe92140073bbe0536393df6bf | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159564 | Will Americans Vote for a Democratic Socialist? | Will Americans Vote for a Democratic Socialist?
Eugene Victor "Gene" Debs
The recent announcement by U.S. Senator
Bernie Sanders, an avowed “democratic socialist,” that he is
running for the Democratic nomination for President raises the
question of whether Americans will vote for a candidate with that
political or... |
d1bd4b1f991ed3fbfb5c46d73389958f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159584 | Review of Jack Ross’s “The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History” | Review of Jack Ross’s “The Socialist Party of America: A Complete History”
Jack
Ross, an independent historian and author of “Rabbi Outcast: Elmer
Berger and American Jewish anti-Zionism” has given us an extensive
and admirable history of the Socialist Party, which had its roots in
the late 19th
Century, and began... |
fb736c42928cad50fcabd2a3d9b67931 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159589 | Did the Bush Invasion of Iraq “Create” ISIS? | Did the Bush Invasion of Iraq “Create” ISIS?
Paul Bremer
It was one of
those moments that politicians dread. An unscripted incident last month when a
voice in a crowd pinned down a candidate on an issue he could not squirm away
from and made news in the process. With the media recording every word, a 19
year old co... |
99d9ce3b60a01673bec8def3337a34e6 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159593 | David Barton’s Unreal Appearance on Family Research Council’s Washington Watch | David Barton’s Unreal Appearance on Family Research Council’s Washington Watch
David Barton was on Family Research Council’s Washington Watch Live yesterday to talk about his version of America’s founding. The host sitting in for Tony Perkins was Craig James.
As I was listening to Barton rattle off some of his usual di... |
427ea2fdfb13e78d1ca518202e533c40 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159602 | Why I Believe Meriwether Lewis Was Assassinated | Why I Believe Meriwether Lewis Was Assassinated
General James Wilkinson, commanding
general of the U. S. Army, was known as Spanish Agent #13 in the
Spanish records, which reveal Wilkinson received $26,000 in payments
during 17871804. These payments were the focus of several
congressional investigations and militar... |
8422ea2938d864f5515f51961e307076 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159645 | The Countess Who Bested Shakespeare | The Countess Who Bested Shakespeare
In
the celebrated prologue to Romeo
and Juliet,
William Shakespeare immortalized the “pair of star-crossed lovers”
whose tragic fate was determined by “two foes” — their warring
families whose “new mutiny” had risen from an “ancient grudge.”
In 1596, close to the time when the ... |
3b7499b83d2af1916e755842559b7209 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159685 | Is George W Bush a burden or blessing for Jeb Bush’s 2016 campaign? | Is George W Bush a burden or blessing for Jeb Bush’s 2016 campaign?
Now that Jeb Bush has finally officially announced his bid for the White House, the chattering class can shift its conversation to whether he will win and what hurdles stand in his way.
Anyone paying attention to the 2016 scuttlebutt can give you the n... |
422d7a0d5b13c4dfb1b3c51a17a5d407 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159756 | Who Did in the Counterculture? An Interview With Ron Jacobs | Who Did in the Counterculture? An Interview With Ron Jacobs
The
writer and journalist Ron Jacobs has just publishedDaydream
Sunset: The 60s Counterculture in the 70s-- the title being a twist on the
Grateful Dead lyric. The book is a exploration of the transition of
the wild idealism of the sixties counter-cultur... |
9be07a2670713886c88684eba60e4f05 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159769 | The Shameful History of the Mistreatment of LGBT Teachers | The Shameful History of the Mistreatment of LGBT Teachers
Even as legal
prohibitions against same sex marriage have fallen
throughout the country, discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender (LGBT) teachers persists. Justice Kennedy, who issued critical
opinions in the landmark gay rights cases, Lawr... |
021584a62a4c1d736adcfec96fdcba31 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159859 | Did Obama Really “Cut and Run” and “Abandon” Iraq to ISIS? | Did Obama Really “Cut and Run” and “Abandon” Iraq to ISIS?
In June of 2014 the
Sunni-dominated hybrid terrorist-army known as ISIS surged out of the
deserts of western Iraq in a fleet of heavily armed pickup trucks and
surprised the world by shattering a much larger Iraqi Army and
conquering Mosul, Iraq’s second la... |
9d668ae19798ae6bd5e29f8e92ae5d2f | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159880 | Why Aren’t Pro-Life Evangelical Christians Appalled by America’s Record of Gun Violence? | Why Aren’t Pro-Life Evangelical Christians Appalled by America’s Record of Gun Violence?
Visitors at a gun show - Wikipedia
Where do American Christians stand on guns and gun-related violence? Christianity, after all, is a religion that professes love and peace. Admittedly, the Christian Bible’s frequent depiction of C... |
0d6fd2d0c69eb210e7d34ddc32b2d1a1 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159881 | The 100th Anniversary Funeral for "The Birth of a Nation" | The 100th Anniversary Funeral for "The Birth of a Nation"
Did you go to the movies this year to see the restored and
re-mastered copy of the 1915 history film The
Birth of a Nation, celebrating its
100th anniversary? Did you see the
CNN tribute to the stars of the film? Did you see the
prices they obtained for co... |
5cc7ae31bdac4047dd8d57df14eaff7a | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159927 | The Radical and Deep Insights of Pope Francis’s Environmental Encyclical | The Radical and Deep Insights of Pope Francis’s Environmental Encyclical
Pope Francis’s recent
Encyclical has been referred to as his “encyclical
on climate change.” It is that—and also a strong rebuttal to
deniers of human-caused global warming. But it is also much more than
that. Its 246 numbered points (some of ... |
ec5aab33893e8ba2a60abb57847f5bd2 | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159937 | Racist Symbols: Latest Developments | Racist Symbols: Latest Developments
Related Links: ● Recent Articles ● Background
● Student protesters are demanding that the Cornell Plantations' name be changed by the university "There is one key element that all botanic gardens have in common: celebrating, displaying and studying the rich diversity of the worl... |
0c0dec10b0a08b6e8b6e88b701b1467c | https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/159959 | Harry Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision: After 70 Years We Need to Get Beyond the Myths | Harry Truman’s Atomic Bomb Decision: After 70 Years We Need to Get Beyond the Myths
President Truman’s
decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945 is arguably the
most contentious issue in all of American history. The bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki have generated an acrimonious debate that has
raged w... |
870408cb5b7cffbd0072ffb8caa1eaad | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d455 | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress
Mr. Motley to Mr. Seward.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your despatches Nos. 1 to 8. Copies of Nos. 2, 5, and 6, relating to my predecessor, Mr. [Page 554]Jones, and co... |
0bc920c6f8dd415e04140f4424018ed0 | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d456 | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress
Mr. Motley to Mr. Seward.
Sir: No despatches have been received from the Department of State at this legation since my last.
The purpose of this brief communication is simply to express my s... |
cf5801b2a2c680239818ac91cc1b201e | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d591 | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress
Mr. Seward to Mr. Corwin.
Your letter of the 22d of May, sent by Captain Shufeldt, has been received. The captain, however, has not come to Washington, as you expected.
The resolution concer... |
04f5078de2eb3e889c56f437f9ba67bc | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d592 | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress
Mr. Corwin to Mr. Seward.
Sir: Three days ago a courier employed by our consul at Vera Cruz arrived here with letters and newspapers from the United States, furnishing the details of the lat... |
fe56dbec10d363a57355e1ae09feff03 | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d597 | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress
Mexican affairs.
Documents presented to the Cortes by the Spanish government.
The Spanish government to General Serrano.— The minister of state to the captain general, governor of the Island... |
8e73a936dca2062c1640584dcbf43544 | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d598 | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress
The Spanish government to General Prim, the plenipotentiary and commander-in-chief of the expeditionary troops of her Majesty in the Mexican republic.
Excellent Sir: The representative of Gr... |
f16108befbdfa74097fda50bac7c24bc | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1862/d688 | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress | Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Third Session Thirty-seventh Congress
Mr. De Long to Mr. Seward.
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that I was disappointed in my expectation in regard to the arrival of the Tuscarora on the 26th instant, as I had addressed a d... |
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