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网页History News Network (HNN) was founded in 2001 to help put current events into historical perspective. In 2023, HNN fused with Bunk, a public history initiative at the University of Richmond ...
When Did Racism Begin? The Fractious Historical Debate Explained
网页2022年8月19日 · The recent scholarship on medieval “racism” resolutely rejects, and seeks to overturn, a prior consensus, broadly dating from the 1990s, that the concept of race is both modern and Western ...
Lafayette as "The Nation’s Guest" (1824-1825) - History News …
网页2021年9月5日 · In July 1824, Lafayette, his son Georges, and his secretary Levasseur traveled to Le Havre, France, to meet their waiting ship. In France, local leaders couldn’t wait for Lafayette to leave. In ...
A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of ... - History News …
网页2019年11月27日 · The fight against involuntary sterilization was one of many intertwined injustices rooted in a much longer history of U.S. colonialism. And that history continues to this day.
The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973
网页2019年5月26日 · Nearly a half century ago, famed historian and scholar Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. published The Imperial Presidency. This path breaking work described the growing centralization of the executive ...
Jefferson Expected the Constitution to Last 19 Years. Where are …
网页2021年8月4日 · A constitution “naturally expires at the end of 19 years,” he wrote to James Madison in 1789. “If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right.”. What the founders failed ...
Who Killed Malcolm X? And Why? — History News Network
网页2011年10月31日 · One, those who were convicted for his assassination were Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson. This could imply they worked together on their own accord – no influence from ...
Truth and History: Historical Truth and Historical Narrative
网页2020年3月6日 · The historical narrative of one side may reflect historical truth more than the historical narrative of the other. Indeed, in general, one may be subjective and right. Still, conceptually, the two ...
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John Henry real? — History News Network
网页Breaking News. 2-28-06. John Henry real? Truth or tall tale, the John Henry story has been told for more than a hundred years. Many historians believe it is based, in part, on a real person and ...
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