New perspectives on how history is made
“[Reading] Mark Roseman’s A Past in Hiding, the story of a young Jewish woman from Essen, my mother’s hometown … made me consider pursuing history as a career.”
History suggests that groups shut out of other branches of government can still use the courts in some circumstances.
And why President Harry Truman resisted overwhelming pressure to do so.
US government officials, defying FDR, helped save 200,000 Jews.
These are some of the lessons they learned.
The government said he was wrong. History proves he got the big story right.
His name is Carter G. Woodson. It’s about time we got to know him.
The succession, when it comes, will provide Japan with symbols of its past, though some will try to hijack them as markers for the future.
His tweeting of anti-Muslim videos could very well have real-world consequences.
It's split the Mennonites and ended in a lawsuit protesting a Kansas law that bans discrimination against Israel.
His name was Thomas Heflin. He was Alabama's junior senator in the 1920s.
It was a similar argument about the power of a president to fill an executive position that ended with the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Before we pass tax cuts, we should lower the deficit.
In a class of their own were the Nazis.
A quick review shows how the impaired mental health of past presidents has put the nation in jeopardy.
Here are two examples.
One has to do with the biggest explosion before the atomic bomb.
It was for a time the refuge of Jews and Cubans including José Martí fleeing oppression.
Langston is and Langston ain’t: Thinking about sexuality, black history and the movies.
There’s a reason for that. (Three reasons, actually.)
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