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 ...
When Did Racism Begin? The Fractious Historical Debate Explained
Aug 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 ...
A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of ... - History News …
Nov 27, 2019 · The fight against involuntary sterilization was one of many intertwined injustices rooted in a much longer history of U.S. colonialism. And that history continues to this day.
What happens if a president-elect passes away at the last minute ...
Nov 6, 2008 · The 20th Amendment states that if the president-elect dies before beginning his term, then the vice president-elect assumes his or her spot. However, the point at which a candidate officially ...
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 ...
Eric Rauchway: When and Why Did the Parties Switch Places?
May 20, 2010 · Possibly it’s because of reaction against the Democrats and the war. Possibly it’s to do with the reaction against immigration. Or all of the above plus something else. Anyway, that’s the ...
The Ironic History of Palestine — History News Network
May 11, 2011 · Historic Palestine as we know it today is derived from a map drawn up by the British at the end of World War I—in particular by British Christians whose understanding of the geography of ...
The Odd Parallels Between Kennedy and Lincoln - History News …
Nov 18, 2002 · Each President in his thirties married a socailly prominent twenty-four year old girl who spoke French fluently. While in the White House, each President had a family of three children, and both ...
The Scary Parallels Between Trump and Mussolini
Mar 19, 2017 · These comparisons are strongest between Trump and Mussolini — stronger than with Hitler and Nazi-ism. Detailed comparisons are difficult for at least two reasons: 1) the historical circumstances ...
The Stunning Success of Joe Biden’s Vice Presidency
The next five vice presidents—Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert H. Humphrey, Spiro T. Agnew, Gerald R. Ford, and Nelson Rockefeller—largely followed suit, sometimes with less influence than Nixon had ...