Who Really Won the 1960 Election? — History News Network
On Election Day in 1960, the Jim Crow system still existed in the South and the Border States. That system’s barriers to voting (poll taxes, literacy tests, intimidation and all the rest ...
Hippies Won the Culture War — History News Network
9-27-15. Hippies Won the Culture War. by W. J. Rorabaugh. W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University ...
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview …
Nov 5, 2017 · Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney, and the features editor of the History News Network (hnn.us). His articles have appeared in HNN, Crosscut, Salon, Real Change, Documentary ...
The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973
May 26, 2019 · 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 ...
These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
Dec 21, 2014 · Memorable quote: “ A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance ...
The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with …
Apr 13, 2014 · Launch of a V2 in Peenemünde; photo taken four seconds after taking off from test stand, Summer 1943. The journalist Annie Jacobsen recently published Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence ...
The Trouble with Gypsies — History News Network
Nov 11, 2018 · One of the surprises of this work on the history of Gypsies is the recurrence of prejudicial commentary from the sixteenth century to the present. The Elizabethan pamphleteer Thomas Harman accused ...
The History of the American System of Interrogation
Jul 21, 2019 · In the early 1960s, John E. Reid, a polygraph expert and former police officer, and Fred E. Inbau, a lawyer and criminologist, devised an extensive method of psychological interrogation called the ...
The Propaganda Posters That Won The U.S. Home Front
The Propaganda Posters That Won The U.S. Home Front. by Albinko Hasic. Albinko Hasic is a PhD student at Syracuse University, whose research concerns propaganda. In 1917, James Montgomery Flagg ...
The United States Was Late to End Slavery - History News Network
Dec 8, 2015 · The answer lies in the actions of John Brown, who six Decembers earlier was hung for his failed attempt to spark slave insurrection. 150 years ago this month, the ratification of the Thirteenth ...