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Eisenhower’s 1955 Mass Deportation Uprooted Over a Million …
Mar 23, 2018 · The short-lived operation used military-style tactics to remove Mexican immigrants—some of them American citizens—from the United States.
22 for '22: The Original Stories That Made the Year on HNN
Dec 22, 2022 · History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present.
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About Us. History News Network (HNN) was founded in 2001 to help put current events into historical perspective. Its original mandate, as articulated by founder Rick Shenkman, was to create a ...
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade
Aug 13, 2007 · Mr. Stern taught African American history at the college level for a decade before becoming historian at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum (1977–1999)—where he designed the museum’s ...
The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973 - History News …
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 ...
The Real Story of Pontius Pilate? It’s Complicated.
Mar 25, 2018 · Pontius Pilate, and the infamous trial he presided over, have become the stuff not only of legend, but of historical reconstructions and speculations ranging from the ingenious to the absurd, but ...
1956: A Year that Changed America — History News Network
Sep 18, 2016 · In January 1960, Harper’s Magazine published an essay by the Bancroft-Prize-winning historian Eric Goldman entitled, “Good-Bye to the ’Fifties—and Good Riddance.” Goldman, a Princeton ...
Navassa Island: The U.S.’s 160-year Forgotten Tragedy
May 5, 2019 · The Navassa Lighthouse. On December 8, 1859, to forestall a Haitian attempt to take possession of Navassa, a Caribbean island south of Cuba, U.S. Secretary of State Lewis Cass made a momentous ...
Why Study History? More Than Ever, a Question that Needs …
May 31, 2020 · One of the few bright features of the past two months has been the extent to which the pandemic crisis has clarified the real public need for historical perspectives.