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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The History of the American System of Interrogation
Jul 21, 2019 · In the early 1960s, John E. Reid, a polygraph expert and former police officer, and Fred E. Inbau, a lawyer and criminologist, devised an extensive method of psychological interrogation called the ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Origins of American Imperialism: An Interview with Stephen …
Oct 1, 2017 · 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 ...