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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why Was the Minimum Wage First Established? - History News …
Dec 13, 2016 · Passed under President Roosevelt, this act called for the first national minimum wage of 25 cents an hour. This created a floor on wages in the labor market and overall helped to create fairer ...
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 United States Was Late to End Slavery - History News Network
Dec 8, 2015 · 150 years ago this month, the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery. While the U.S. was not alone in ending slavery, its story of abolition stands out in the ...