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Source: History Today
Jan 2, 2020
by Laura Aitken-Burt
The earliest graffiti of a person’s name on a monument has been identified by the historian Lionel Casson in a cave at Wadi Hammamat in Egypt – the name of Hena, an official under Menutuhotep III in 2000 BC, is chiselled into the sandstone alongside a list of his achievements.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 31, 2019
Several black legislators have called the effort disingenuous and said it undermines the purpose of Black History Month: to highlight the accomplishments of African Americans so often overlooked in classrooms and history books.
Source: BBC History Extra
Dec 30, 2019
Today, we associate New Year’s Eve with raucous and optimistic parties, followed the next day by hungover resolutions to change our ways in the months ahead. But New Year celebrations haven’t always been so.
Source: NY Times
Dec 29, 2019
The fateful decision in 1979 to admit Mohammed Reza Pahlavi prompted the seizure of the American Embassy in Tehran and helped doom the Carter presidency.
Source: Time
Dec 27, 2019
In the African-American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” — or “Heartbreak Day,” as the African-American abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell described it — because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families.
Source: Popular Mechanics
Dec 27, 2019
Once upon a time, we all thought the world was going to end on January 1, 2000. Two decades after the panic of the century, it’s time to finally hear from the people who spent years—and billions of dollars—making sure it didn’t.
Source: The Conversation
Dec 27, 2019
by Erin Elizabeth Bramwell
The promotion of diet, detox, and laxative products has been around for centuries.
Source: NY Times
Dec 26, 2019
Their breakthroughs were in law, science, music and business, and, like the more famous who died this year, they left indelible legacies.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 22, 2019
In a lengthy response published online over the weekend, New York Times Magazine editor Jake Silverstein addressed each concern from the professors but stood firmly behind the reporting and declined to correct it.
Source: NY Times
Dec 22, 2019
The American-born Lady Astor was the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament. A century later, her legacy is still being debated.
Source: NBC News
Dec 18, 2019
The official said the brutal killings in her city bear no resemblance to what the president is talking about.
Source: History.com
Dec 18, 2019
Learn why we decorate trees, swap cookies and hide pickles and elves, among other traditions.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 18, 2019
Here’s the history behind the quote.
Source: NY Times
Dec 17, 2019
When white mobs obliterated a thriving black district nearly 100 years ago, as many as 300 people died. Researchers have found clues to where some of those bodies may be.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 17, 2019
Trump isn’t the first president to face an impeachment vote just before the holidays. It happened two decades ago to Bill Clinton.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 17, 2019
Hamilton’s name appears 35 times in a 658-page report formally recommending impeachment that was released earlier Monday by the House Judiciary Committee.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 17, 2019
The Army unit posted a glamorous, colorized photo of Peiper alongside an intimate narrative depicting the Nazi writing in his diary.
Source: Washington Post
Dec 16, 2019
One is a paper discard from the 1990s. Researchers believe the other, made from clay, may have held wine before it was thrown out after an ancient party on the island of Crete.
Source: Time
Dec 16, 2019
Side by side, the Allies and former enemy Germany together marked the 75th anniversary of one of the most important battles in World War II — the Battle of the Bulge, which stopped Adolf Hitler’s last-ditch offensive to turn the tide of the war.
Source: USA Today
Dec 16, 2019
USA Today publishes article alleging just that.
