Because the National Park Service reflects the historical priorities of Americans over time, it's not surprising that it is so lacking in sites interpreting Reconstruction, since the great growth period for the NPS came when Reconstruction was not seen as so central to U.S. history...
Author: Erik Loomis
The only logical follow up for Pat Buchanan now that he's written a book arguing Richard Nixon wasn't racist is a book definitively showing that the greatest civil rights president.
In the summer of 1864, Abraham Lincoln's reelection was still up in the air, so politically it might have made sense to pocket veto the Wade-Davis bill to impose a.
Huh. Imagine if CNN or other American networks followed the path of the BBC and had directives to stop bringing cranks on the air to present absurd and scientifically bogus arguments that human-caused climate change isn't happening. It's almost as if we might get somewhere...
The more that the young are unemployed, the more than the long-term stability of capitalism is threatened. It's not just the U.S., but in fact most of Europe as well,.
Worker deaths in the energy industry have risen dramatically over the past five years because of the oil and fracking booms. That's not necessary though. Better worker training would cut.
Children playing next to a dead horse, Chicago, 1893 This is probably my favorite image for teaching in American history. There is so much going on here. The children playing next to a dead horse seemingly uninterested in its existence. The slum where they live...
In the late 19th century, Americans were still trying to figure out why they died of horrible diseases all the time. At this time, the idea of contagion was just.
I was at the Warren Harding home a few years ago. My wife asked about Harding's affairs. The woman working there was very irritated that his name continued to be.
The right to water should be a basic human right and Detroit shutting off water to people who can't afford to pay their bills is an immoral act. The federal government should intervene to stop this from happening.
As we talked about here earlier, the idea that the kids just aren't doing their activism right because I'm too lazy to find out what the kids are doing today.
On July 5, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This groundbreaking piece of legislation revolutionized the relationship between the federal government and organized labor and.