These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
Dec 21, 2014 · 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hippies Won the Culture War — History News Network
Sep 27, 2015 · Hippies Won the Culture War. W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief ...
Remember the Army's Role in the Pacific War: Important Then ...
Nov 7, 2021 · Troops of the 185th Infantry, 40th Division, advance toward Japanese positions on Panay Island, Philippines, March 1945. In the Pacific theater during World War II, the American land war was ...
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 ...
The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with …
Apr 13, 2014 · 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 ...
50 Years After the Paris Accords: How the US ... - History News …
Jan 29, 2023 · Ho Chi Minh City, 2022. On January 27, 1973 the United States officially ended its war in Vietnam by signing the Paris Peace Accords and withdrawing from a land where it had been involved in ...
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 ...