New perspectives on how history is made
How a white eight year old who lived in DC experienced the death of Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I worry we could be entering a time in which students in some districts will read pro-Trump books and students in other districts will read anti-Trump books.”
It was the Fort Pillow Massacre. And it was ghastly.
It’s because his legacy keeps becoming more and more relevant.
It is a cautionary tale about the dangers of war hysteria, but also something more: testament to the solidarity of the labor movement.
His last, stunning speech.
He gave it 50 years ago after hearing that MLK had been assassinated.
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.
From one who tried it.
Reflections of a master historian.
Probably not. (It was in the American Revolution.) But here’s why you should. It was a key to the victory at Yorktown.
Decades later the FBI was still trying to conceal their source’s identity.
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.
The stunning account of sexual harassment disclosed by the past president of the Southern Historical Association.
There was a sister ship. It was sailed south to plant a Puritan colony on an island off Central America.
In the 1790s even George Washington faced a tax rebellion. He put it down personally at the head of an army.
He helped desegregate spring training.
It was not nearly as devastating a military defeat for the Communists, nor as devastating a political defeat for the US government, as is imagined.
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