The Horrible Secrets of Operation Paperclip: An Interview with …
WEBApr 13, 2014 — Launch of a V2 in Peenemünde; photo taken four seconds after taking off from test stand, Summer 1943. The journalist Annie Jacobsen recently published Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence ...
Remembering the Jewish Massacres in Mandate Palestine
WEBEdwin Black is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of IBM and the Holocaust. This article is based on research from Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War ...
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 ...
Hippies Won the Culture War — History News Network
WEBSep 27, 2015 — Hippies Won the Culture War. W. J. Rorabaugh, professor of History at the University of Washington in Seattle, is the author of American Hippies (Cambridge University Press), which offers a brief ...
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade
WEB8-13-2007. It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade. by Sheldon M. Stern. Mr. Stern taught African American history at the college level for a decade before becoming ...
"Brian’s Song": What Really Happened - History News Network
WEBby Barron H. Lerner. 11-29-11. Barron H. Lerner, a professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University Medical Center, is the author of “The Breast Cancer Wars” and, most recently ...
Why The Supreme Court Ended Up With Nine Justices—And How …
WEBSep 20, 2020 — Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801, creating new judgeships to serve six judicial circuits and reducing the Supreme Court from six seats to five. In so doing, the law also eliminated the ...
Why Was the Minimum Wage First Established? - History News …
WEBDec 13, 2016 — Passed under President Roosevelt, this act called for the first national minimum wage of 25 cents an hour. This created a floor on wages in the labor market and overall helped to create fairer ...
Yes, Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide
WEB5-12-16. Yes, Native Americans Were the Victims of Genocide. by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She ...
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 ...