When Did Racism Begin? The Fractious Historical Debate Explained
Aug 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 ...
Remember the Army's Role in the Pacific War: Important Then ...
Nov 7, 2021 · Troops of the 185th Infantry, 40th Division, advance toward Japanese positions on Panay Island, Philippines, March 1945. In the Pacific theater during World War II, the American land war was ...
What happens if a president-elect passes away at the last minute ...
Nov 6, 2008 · The 20th Amendment states that if the president-elect dies before beginning his term, then the vice president-elect assumes his or her spot. However, the point at which a candidate officially ...
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade
Aug 13, 2007 · Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies, 1927. On June 21, 2007, the Freedom Schooner Amistad began an 18-month “Atlantic Freedom Tour” to retrace the route of the Atlantic slave trade. Owned and ...
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 ...
It’s Time We Face the Fact that Ronald Reagan Was Hostile to Civil ...
Apr 20, 2015 · Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. After these historic measures were firmly in place, Reagan—perfectly representing broader tactical shifts within ...
Did Lincoln Own Slaves? — History News Network
In many ways, the answer is “no.”. So no, Lincoln did not own slaves, though organizations such as these may argue otherwise. Nevertheless, the Civil War lives on in the lives and minds of ...
The Sexual Assault and Exploitation of Enslaved Men in America
Sep 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 ...
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 U.S. a Christian Nation? Not According to the Founders!
9/8/19. 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 ...