John Adams Knew When to Go Home — History News Network
Aug 23, 2020 · Before dawn on the morning of March 4, John Adams left the executive mansion and began the arduous two-week journey home by stagecoach and boat. He never left Quincy again. For twenty-five years, he read, wrote, argued, reflected, and philosophized about politics, government, history, religion, and his life and career.
“Free College” in Historical Perspective - History News Network
Feb 16, 2020 · In 2018, he joined with Patricia Albjerg Graham, Dean Emerita of Harvard, to present a Congressional Briefing on the Higher Education Act of 1965. “Free college” is a visible and volatile issue in the Democrat candidates’ presidential campaign platforms. Bernie Sanders has showcased this proposal since 2016.
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History News Network (HNN) was founded in 2001 to help put current events into historical perspective. In 2023, HNN fused with Bunk, a public history initiative at the University of Richmond. Recognizing historians’ many successes over the prior two decades in reaching broad public audiences, and the simultaneous challenges posed by the fragmentation of those audiences into countless digital ...
Alexis de Tocqueville on the Dangers of Presidential Elections
Nov 1, 2020 · He is the author of Plato, Aristotle, and the Purpose of Politics. Nearly two hundred years ago, the French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville described America’s presidential election in this way: For a long while before the appointed time has come, the election becomes the important and, so to speak, the all-engrossing topic of discussion.
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The Women Who Won the Vietnam War - History News Network
Oct 24, 2021 · The 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces in World War II, were recently given a place in history thanks to Svetlana Alexievich’s ground-breaking The Unwomanly Face of War (Penguin 2015) which won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (First published in Russian in 1985, it appeared in English translation thirty years later in 2015.)
In Defense of <I>Dark Union</i> — History News Network
Addendum 4-1-04. Further to my comments on the Steers-Chaconas article"Dark Union: Bad History" in the January 2004 issue of North & South, please note the following, based upon NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) Record Group 107, Records of the Secretary of War, Passes Issued by the Secretary of War, January 1864 - May 1865, Vols.373 and 375.
Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue: A Southern Unionist’s Viewpoint
Mar 17, 2019 · But the May 29, 1890 unveiling of a massive equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond--an event attended by a throng of more than 100,000 spectators--was the final straw. Van Lew knew that the ascendant cult of the Lost Cause, which posited a "solid South" of dauntless Confederates and loyal slaves, was designed to erase her and other anti ...
The 1940s Fight Against the Equal Rights ... - History News Network
May 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 ...
The US is a Procedural, Not a Substantive, Democracy
1/22/2023. The US is a Procedural, Not a Substantive, Democracy. by Van Gosse. Van Gosse is Professor of History at Franklin and Marshall College and Co-Chair of Historians for Peace & Democracy. He is the author of The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America, From the Revolution to the Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 2021).
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