These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
Dec 21, 2014 · Memorable quote: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal ...
War Babies: The Generation that Changed America
He is the author of five books, all of them on modern American Culture. This article is taken from his most recent book, “War Babies: The Generation That Changed America.”. In 2009, I attended ...
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade
Aug 13, 2007 · Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies, 1927. On June 21, 2007, the Freedom Schooner Amistad began an 18-month “Atlantic Freedom Tour” to retrace the route of the Atlantic slave trade. Owned and ...
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview …
Nov 5, 2017 · Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney, and the features editor of the History News Network (hnn.us). His articles have appeared in HNN, Crosscut, Salon, Real Change, Documentary ...
Why Preserving Historical Places and Sites Matters
Feb 24, 2019 · The places we choose to save-or not-reflect our identity. That’s why we see places that are important to the “enemy” being targeted in times of conflict, such as the Mostar Bridge. The ...
Hippies Won the Culture War — History News Network
9-27-15. Hippies Won the Culture War. by W. J. Rorabaugh. W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University ...
The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973
May 26, 2019 · Nearly a half century ago, famed historian and scholar Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. published The Imperial Presidency. This path breaking work described the growing centralization of the executive ...
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb
10/29/2021. The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb. by Alex Wellerstein. Alex Wellerstein is an Associate Professor and Director of the Science and Technology Studies program at the ...
How Italians Became ‘White’ - History News Network
Oct 12, 2019 · How Italians Became ‘White’. Brent Staples is an author and an editorial writer for The New York Times. Congress envisioned a white, Protestant and culturally homogeneous America when it ...
Who Really Won the 1960 Election? — History News Network
On Election Day in 1960, the Jim Crow system still existed in the South and the Border States. That system’s barriers to voting (poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation and all the rest ...