A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of ... - History News …
WEBNov 27, 2019 · 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.
When Did Racism Begin? The Fractious Historical Debate Explained
WEBAug 19, 2022 · 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 ...
The Guardian Investigates the Nazi Ties of Bush's Grandfather
WEBBen Aris and Duncan Campbell, in the Guardian (Sept. 25, 2004): George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their ...
It’s Time We Face the Fact that Ronald Reagan Was Hostile to Civil ...
WEB4-20-15. It’s Time We Face the Fact that Ronald Reagan Was Hostile to Civil Rights. by Doug Rossinow. Doug Rossinow, professor of history at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota ...
The U.S. a Christian Nation? Not According to the Founders!
WEB9/8/19. The U.S. a Christian Nation? Not According to the Founders! by Harlow Giles Unger. Harlow Giles Unger is author of 27 books, including a dozen biographies of the Founding Fathers. His ...
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview …
WEBNov 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 ...
Who Invented Memorial Day? - History News Network
WEBOn May 1, 1865, freed slaves gathered in Charleston, South Carolina to commemorate the death of Union soldiers and the end of the American Civil War. Three years later, General John Logan issued a ...
The Odd Parallels Between Kennedy and Lincoln - History News …
WEBNov 18, 2002 · Each President in his thirties married a socailly prominent twenty-four year old girl who spoke French fluently. While in the White House, each President had a family of three children, and both ...
Why Did the Japanese Delay Surrendering? - History News Network
WEBWhy Did the Japanese Delay Surrendering? by Herbert P. Bix. Mr. Bix, author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins, 2000), writes on problems of war and empire and is a Japan ...
The Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Enslaved Men in America
WEBSep 29, 2019 · In 1813 an enslaved man named David was convicted of rape in Virginia. In a petition to the governor in David’s defense, one neighbor testified that the woman Dolly Getts had in fact engaged in ...