The Value of Rating Presidents — History News Network
WEBApr 21, 2019 · Presidential rankings are quick, fun, and highly shareable on social media. They foster lively debate about contemporary presidents and even help resurface some of our most obscure presidents.
The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think
WEBNov 24, 2019 · The United States contains less than 5 percent of the world’s population but incarcerates one-quarter of all prisoners across the globe. Statistics have long shown that persons of color make up a disproportionate share of the U.S. inmate population.
Did Hitler Really Have Only One Testicle? - History News Network
WEBDid Adolf Hitler, widely considered to be one of the most evil, despicable people who ever lived, really have only one testicle?Maybe.Fans of the 1957 Bridge over the River Kwai no doubt remember the jaunty tune whistled by the British POWs as they marched into captivity:But film buffs may not be aware that the WWI-era tune, “Colonel Bogey’s March,” developed an alternate set of lyrics ...
The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad
WEBSep 15, 2019 · In an interview conducted in 2002, the late Helen Hornbeck Tanner, an influential historian of the Native American experience in the Midwest best known for her magisterial Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History (1987), reflected on the considerable record of “coexistence and cooperation” between African Americans and Indians in the region.. According to Tanner, “[an] important example of ...
It Was once a KKK Stronghold. Last Year BLM Came to Town
WEBMay 25, 2021 · On June 5th last year, the town of Vidor in East Texas, home to 11,000 people, awoke in a nervous sweat. It was a hot summer and waves of anger and indignation were rippling across the country after George Floyd was murdered by a …
Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue: A Southern Unionist’s Viewpoint
WEBMar 17, 2019 · "Ever since the Lee unveiling," Elizabeth Van Lew of Richmond, Virginia wrote to a Massachusetts friend in 1891, "I have felt that this was no place for me.". This was a remarkable and revealing confession. Van Lew had long been at odds with the majority of her fellow white Richmonders: while they supported the Confederacy, she had stayed loyal to the Union and played a heroic role during the ...
The 1940s Fight Against the Equal Rights ... - History News Network
WEBMay 2, 2021 · The fight over the Equal Rights Amendment is often framed as a classic fight between liberals and conservatives with liberals supporting the amendment to ensure gender equality and conservatives opposing the amendment to preserve traditional gender roles. But the history of the ERA before the state ratification battles of the 1970s shows that the fight over complete constitutional sexual ...
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Is Christmas a Pagan Holiday? — History News Network
WEBDec 21, 2012 · The Norse god Freyr in traditional holiday garb. Credit: Wiki Commons/HNN staff. Recently, a student in my medieval religion class sent me this article by writer Tiffany Willis: "For Christ’s Sake, Leave The ‘Christ’ Out Of Christmas."In it, she argues that most of what we know of as "Christmas," from the December 25 date to the Christmas tree, actually have pagan origins.
Oh, No, It’s Happening Again! — History News Network
WEBNov 22, 2015 · Anti-German sign Chicago 1917 . Once a generation or so, usually amid the stresses of war or international conflict, Americans abandon their collective identity as the “asylum for mankind” and target otherwise unoffending ethnic populations either already here or coming to our shores simply seeking the fruits of freedom.