New perspectives on how history is made
A point-by-point comparison shows the sad state in which we find ourselves.
To do that requires that we begin taking mitigating steps to fix powerlines.
Their tweets and retweets.
What historians are tweeting and retweeting.
It started with Nixon.
By just about every conceivable measure, he deserves an “F.”
There are seven (potential) candidates.
Trump so far hasn’t wiretapped journalists (as far as we know), but that’s cold comfort.
Studying the Gypsies taught this British historian that we learn more about Us than Them when we see how they were treated.
Like the Tuskegee Airmen, who fought in WW 2, the Hellfighters deserve to be remembered for their heroism in the face of racist attacks in WW 1.
How idealistic was he, really?
What the famed newspaperman learned about his own country when he went abroad to cover the war.
We went to war to resist threats to democracy. Once again democracy is threatened today.
These suggest that his near-great ranking among the American presidents should be a matter of debate.
They forgot to heed the lessons of the 19th century round of peace talks that ended the Napoleonic wars.
Lincoln would have nothing to do with a party of immigrant-haters.
Our long history of demonizing Latin Americans.
80 years after the horrific events of Kristallnacht it’s time to acknowledge his inadequate response.
How the “we’re the chosen people” narrative makes us susceptible to demagogues.
There's evidence this was Christianity's original creed: "There is no Jew or Greek; there is no slave or free; there is no male and female, for you are all one.”
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