Why is the Republican symbol an elephant? Why is the Democratic …
WEBMar 18, 2016 · Thomas H. Nast. It is not because humans are, by nature, political animals, although some such as Aristotle have argued that this is the case.. The association of these two animals with the ...
"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 ...
The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with …
WEBApr 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 ...
These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
WEBDec 21, 2014 · Memorable quote: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal ...
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 ...
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview …
WEBNov 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 ...
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 ...
The U.S. a Christian Nation? Not According to the Founders!
WEB9/8/19. The U.S. a Christian Nation? Not According to the Founders! by Harlow Giles Unger. Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His ...
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade
WEBAug 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 ...
The Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Enslaved Men in America
WEBSep 29, 2019 · In 1813 an enslaved man named David was convicted of rape in Virginia. In a petition to the governor in David’s defense, one neighbor testified that the woman Dolly Getts had in fact engaged in ...