New perspectives on how history is made
We might find them a cure for the moral illnesses of our day: inauthenticity, cravenness, unconcern, mendacity, injustice, and ignorance.
50 years later no one knows for sure, but these are some self-evident factors.
It’s worth remembering his story, too, to show us the danger of superpower conflict.
How a white eight year old who lived in DC experienced the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
It was the Fort Pillow Massacre. And it was ghastly.
It is a cautionary tale about the dangers of war hysteria, but also something more: testament to the solidarity of the labor movement.
It was at the turn of the last century when two famous explorers both claimed to have been the first to step foot on the North Pole.
A centarian looks back.
His last, stunning speech.
He gave it 50 years ago after hearing that MLK had been assassinated.
"I had the chance to stand in front of Rembrandt’s Man with a Golden Helmet."
A response from the Coordinating Council of Women Historians.
Another pillar of the Lost Cause myth falls.
It shows you what a president with empathy for African Americans does.
First and foremost there’s his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
The fact is historians are still fighting over it.
It was in 1963. And for the first time the all-white Bulldogs of Mississippi State agreed to play an out-of-state team including black players.
It’s because his legacy keeps becoming more and more relevant.
But that didn’t stop this courageous historian from trying to quantify Alexander’s wealth.
Decades later the FBI was still trying to conceal their source’s identity.
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