These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
2014年12月21日 · Memorable quote: “ A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance ...
When Did Racism Begin? The Fractious Historical Debate Explained
2022年8月19日 · The recent scholarship on medieval “racism” resolutely rejects, and seeks to overturn, a prior consensus, broadly dating from the 1990s, that the concept of race is both modern and Western ...
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade
8-13-2007. It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade. by Sheldon M. Stern. Mr. Stern taught African American history at the college level for a decade before becoming ...
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
2019年5月26日 · 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 ...
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview …
2017年11月5日 · 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 ...
The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with …
2014年4月13日 · Launch of a V2 in Peenemünde; photo taken four seconds after taking off from test stand, Summer 1943. The journalist Annie Jacobsen recently published Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence ...
Why Preserving Historical Places and Sites Matters
2019年2月24日 · 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 ...
The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen …
2017年10月1日 · Perhaps the history could best be understood as coming in three phases. First, the United States created a continental empire in North America by clearing native people and seizing a large part of ...
Eric Rauchway: When and Why Did the Parties Switch Places?
2010年5月20日 · So the switch takes place sometime between, let’s say, 1872 and 1936. That may not sound very narrow, but it’s a start. Now, we can go further by finding some landmark dates in there. One of ...