New perspectives on how history is made
Her name was Vel Phillips. She was a path breaker in Wisconsin. She just died.
It started with a small dinner party in Paris.
Here’s one way to do it.
What he's famous for.
It happened 100 years ago this week.
As this historian discovered, it helps to visit Brazil and see how slavery developed there.
What she's famous for.
“It seemed to me that Japan could contemplate the bombing with stoicism and dignity. The defeat, however, was too much.”
But is the matter really settled?
It shows that slavery was not the only injustice affecting African Americans before the Civil War.
The Confederates marched on Gettysburg on account of their need for … shoes.
It wasn’t Europe that gave us our idea of the Byzantines. They crafted their own Western European image.
Nearly half of graduate degrees awarded in history go to women and yet there's still a persistent problem of gender bias in the academy.
John Hope Franklin died at March 25, 2009 at the age of 94, Franklin was the doyen of African American history.
“It is not easy to look at the future when your head is plunged into the past!”
You can forget the belief he was put up to it by a hypnotist.
An interview with Edith Sheffer.
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