American History

Left, Right & Center: Is America Ungovernable? Plus: Men, Women and History

Huff Radio | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government, Philosophy, Special Interests, American History, Karl Marx, Gender, Politics News
Huff Radio

Are moneyed and special interests so entrenched that we cannot govern of, for and by the people? Is history made by great men and women? Or is it the reverse: Does the moment make the man/woman?

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Busting Thanksgiving Myths

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Pilgrims, Kenneth C. Davis. Don't Know Much About History, Thanksgiving Commentary, American History, Thanksgiving Myths, Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

You may know that the Pilgrims sailed aboard the Mayflower and arrived in Plymouth, Mass. in 1620. But did you know their first Thanksgiving celebration lasted three whole days?

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A Bad Lawsuit Over Impeachment

David O. Stewart | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Thomas Porteous, Congress, Federal Judge, American History, Impeachment, Courts, Politics News
David O. Stewart

I wish Judge Porteous well. If he has committed neither treason nor bribery nor a high crime or misdemeanor, he should not retain his judgeship. But he just filed a dumb lawsuit.

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The House's Historic Health Care Reform Vote and the Lens of History

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics, Congress, Wall Street, American History, Slavery, Health Care Reform, Obama, Business, African Americans, Politics News
Marcella Mroczkowski

Today's generation of managers goes to our best business schools not to learn to be builders, creators and healers but to be more clever and effective swindlers, gamblers and parasites.

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Caution: Health Insurance May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Cigarettes, American History, Health Care, Health, President Obama, Politics News
Jeffrey Feldman

The health insurance industry does not make obscenely huge profits by selling health insurance that keeps us healthy, but by selling us the idea that health insurance keeps us healthy.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marx, International Workers of the World, Mitch McConnell, Mcconnell, The Spirit of Lenin, John Boehner, Leninism, Wells, Teacher, Statue, Republican, History, Pelosi, Barbara Bindley, American History, Socialist, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Syndicalist, Handicap, Reid, Radical, Red, Leaders, How I Became a Socialist, Socialism, Alabama, marxists.org, James W Loewen, Childhood, Lenin, Soviet Union, State Quarter, HG Wells, Chris Weigant, Revolutionary, Marxism, Harry Reid, Plutocrat, Why I Became an IWW, Republicans, Boehner, Aclu, Capitol, Brooklyn Eagle, Syndicalism, Rotunda, Loewen, Bindley, Iww, Wobblies, Wobbly, Politics News
Chris Weigant

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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The Greatest Senator in American History

Mike Lux | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: U.S. Senate, American History, Ted Kennedy, Senator Kennedy, Ted Kennedy Dead, Ted Kennedy Death, Politics News
Mike Lux

No one in all of America's great history got more tangible things that mattered accomplished for the American people. On issue after issue, Ted Kennedy was at the center of the debate.

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The Constant Challenge of Creating an Effective Left Flank

Mike Lux | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, 2009 Obama Administration, Progressive Movement, American History, Politics News
Mike Lux

Progressives and the White House need each other to get anything big and important done. It's how big change happens in this country.

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Nixonland: Murder in the Cathedral

Peter Schwartz | Posted 09.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Richard Nixon, 1960s, History, Publishing, Republicans, American History, Democrats, George Mcgovern, Books News
Peter Schwartz

Nixonland reads like nothing more than an undergraduate thesis. It is sprawling, poorly written, and ham-handed analytically.

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I Accept Rep. Randy Forbes's Challenge for Someone to Debate Him

Chris Rodda | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religious Right, Congress, H. Res. 397, Historical Revisionism, American History, Barack Obama, Randy Forbes, Politics News
Chris Rodda

Let's debate your resolution clause by clause and see how well that very impressive looking list of footnotes you keep boasting about stands up to scrutiny.

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Borrowed Time: The World at 65

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Aging, Past, American History, Living News
Tom Engelhardt

Tomorrow, I turn 65, an age I simply never imagined for myself back in those youthful years. And the past, I must admit, now lurks somewhat closer to home -- as, of course, does the future: my future.

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Alexander Hamilton: Unclaimed Son to Founding Father

Allison Rockefeller | Posted 08.20.2009 | New York

Read More: Aaron Burr, American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton, New York, George Washington, Thirteen Colonies, American History, New York City, New York History, New York City History, New York News
Allison Rockefeller

Hamilton arrived in 1773 and began his stunning ascent in a whirlwind, epic tale of crisis and opportunity, from unclaimed son to Founding Father. Doesn't New York set the greatest stage for this kind of story?

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The Idiocy of Texas and the Threat of David Barton

Chris Rodda | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Historical Revisionism, Education, Texas, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, American History, David Barton, Randy Forbes, Politics News
Chris Rodda

Governor Rick Perry's (R-TX) has appointed the worst and most dangerous state Board of Education ever, as well as Christian nationalist, history revisionist David Barton as an "expert" to review the state's social studies curriculum.

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Culture War Flares Up Over American History Curriculum In Texas Classrooms

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Culture Wars, Education, Bible, Creationism, American History, CéSar CháVez, Curriculum u.s. History, Christianity, Texas Board of Education, Evolution, Constitution, Thurgood Marshall, Church State Separation, Politics News

The fight over school curriculum in Texas, recently focused on biology, has entered a new arena, with a brewing debate over how much faith belongs in ...

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NYC Slavery Walking Tour

Sheryl McCarthy | Posted 08.13.2009 | New York

Read More: Slavery, History, New-York-History, Slave Trade, New York, American History, Financial District, New York City, City Hall, South Street Seaport, African-American History, New York News
Sheryl McCarthy

I bet few New Yorkers know about the role that the hideous institution of slavery played in shaping the city physically, financially and socially.

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Independence Week Declaration 101: A "Forgotten Founder" Worth Knowing

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 08.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Declaration of Independence, History, American Revolution, American History, Independence Day, Founding Fathers, Fourth of July, Constitution, Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

One of the "Forgotten Founders" is James Wilson, whose contributions to the creation of the United States of America were obscured by his later disgrace.

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Twittering Through American History

Ben Fractenberg | Posted 07.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: George Soros, The Alamo, Titanic, George W. Bush, Twitter, Facebook, OJ Simpson, Cold War, Lsd, Tweet, Barack Obama, Andy Warhol, Disco, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Joseph McCarthy, American History, General Custer, Abraham Lincoln, Truman Capote, Neil Simon, Jfk, Fatty Arbuckle, Prohabition, Comedy News
Ben Fractenberg

"The British are coming! OMG! Wake up the militia! Sound the church bells! Update your Facebook status!"

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Memorial Day Prayer to Charlie and Buffalo Bill

Deanne Stillman | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Horses, Public Lands, Buffalo Bill, Memorial Day, American-History, Animals, Man vs Wild, Green News
Deanne Stillman

In 1887, a troupe of horses crossed the Atlantic, sailing out of New York harbor as excited crowds looked on.

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Homo Sex in Colonial America

Larry Kramer | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Homophobia, Founding Fathers, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, American History, Gay Issues, Colonial America, Larry Kramer: Homo Sex in Colonial America, Larry Kramer, Homo Sex, Homo, Politics News
Larry Kramer

Gay people are victims of an enormous con job. An awful rip-off. A tragic heist. It is time to call its bluff and grow up. This means recognizing that we have been here since the beginning of the history of people.

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Memorial Day: A History

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dover Air Force Base, Memorial Day, American History, Mother's Day, Abraham Lincoln, Julia Ward Howe, Civil War, Pacifism, Peace, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

'Why don't the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters, to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?'

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We Need Business Leaders Who Know About History

Don McNay | Posted 06.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Structured Settlement, Small Business, Joe Hackett, Current Events, Economic Crisis, Kentucky, Covington Catholic High School, Don McNay, Vanderbilt, Covington Catholic, History, Education, Louisville, Bailout, American History, Business-Leaders, Cincinnati, Million Dollar Round Table, Tim Banker, Education Reform, Teachers, Chester Finn, Personal Finance, Lexington, Covington, Mcnay, Ky, Business News
Don McNay

If we are going to break out of this economic crisis, we don't need business leaders trained in business schools. We need leaders who know and understand history.

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It's Back -- Randy Forbes Reintroduces His Religious Heritage Week Resolution

Chris Rodda | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Historical Revisionism, H. Res. 397, David Barton, American History, Randy Forbes, Politics News
Chris Rodda

The resolution, which purports to promote "education on America's history of religious faith," is packed with lies found on Christian nationalist websites and in the books of pseudo-historians.

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GOP - DOA?

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kenneth C. Davis, Arlen Specter, Gop, Republican Party, Democrats, American History, Grand Old Party, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

Personalities and issues -- or the lack thereof -- make and break political parties.

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Bachmann Uses Fake George Washington Prayer to Bash Obama

Chris Rodda | Posted 06.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Historical Revisionism, Michele Bachmann, George Washington, American History, Randy Forbes, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Politics News
Chris Rodda

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann spit out a few more bits of historical hogwash, including a fake George Washington prayer, to bash the president.

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America's Willing Torturers

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lincoln, Waterboarding, American History, Torture, My Lai, Philip Zimbardo, Holocaust, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Kenneth C. Davis

We stand justified in asking our leaders to hold America to a higher standard -- to probe the decisions and decision-makers who led us to that darkened cell with its waterboards and bug boxes.

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