These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
WEBHistorians/History. 12-21-14. These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World. by Rachel Rolnick. Rachel Rolnick, a student at Stern College for Women, is an HNN intern. The ...
Hippies Won the Culture War — History News Network
WEBSep 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 ...
"Brian’s Song": What Really Happened - History News Network
WEBby Barron H. Lerner. 11-29-11. Barron H. Lerner, a professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University Medical Center, is the author of “The Breast Cancer Wars” and, most recently ...
Why Preserving Historical Places and Sites Matters
WEBFeb 24, 2019 · That’s why we see places that are important to the “enemy” being targeted in times of conflict, such as the Mostar Bridge. The destruction of the old place is tantamount to the destruction ...
The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973
WEBMay 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 ...
Truth and History: Historical Truth and Historical Narrative
WEBMar 6, 2020 · Indeed, in general, one may be subjective and right. Still, conceptually, the two are not necessarily related. Historical truth stands alone, in its own right. Historical narratives may reflect ...
When Did Racism Begin? The Fractious Historical Debate Explained
WEBAug 19, 2022 · 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 ...
War Babies: The Generation that Changed America
WEBMy book, called War Babies: The Generation That Changed America, rests on four central themes. First, the war babies—not the generation of the Depression and World War II, or the baby boomers ...
What we get wrong about Ben Franklin’s ‘a republic, if you can …
WEBOct 29, 2019 · Franklin’s “a republic, if you can keep it” line is as memorable as it is catchy. It is a story that appeals across partisan lines. The same month Pelosi referenced it, Supreme Court Justice ...
How Italians Became ‘White’ - History News Network
WEBOct 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 ...