New perspectives on how history is made
They go back to the very origins of the country when the white South sought to dominate politics.
The fact is historians are still fighting over it.
It’s happened before. The president? Andrew Jackson, Trump’s favorite.
It's the Pulitzer that went to Alex Haley’s tarnished blockbuster, “Roots.”
A half-century boom in the fur trade that decimated California otters.
Missiles won’t clean it up.
Whatever his personal reasons, structural changes in Congress make life tough for any House Speaker.
It happened twenty years ago when Bill Clinton launched missiles in the midst of his sex scandal.
The new battleground is not in some basement or backyard where hate is brewing. It’s not on the street. It’s in your phone and on your screen.
But that didn’t stop this courageous historian from trying to quantify Alexander’s wealth.
Here's why they aren't celebrating this attempt at a usable past.
The short answer: They’ve already been here before.
His name was Vasili Arkhipov. During the Cuban Missile Crisis he refused to go along with an order to fire a nuclear missile.
The change in our political structure that led directly to Trump’s election.
And guess who’s not on the list: the three countries that claim to be the most powerful.
40 years after the Bakke decision its endorsement of diversity may have been an ironic legacy of Jim Crow.
First and foremost there’s his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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.”
We need to spend more on missile defense.
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