These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
WEBDec 21, 2014 · Memorable quote: “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal ...
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 ...
Why the Nile River Was So Important to Ancient Egypt
WEBJul 12, 2021 · The Nile, which flows northward for 4,160 miles from east-central Africa to the Mediterranean, provided ancient Egypt with fertile soil and water for irrigation, as well as a means of transporting ...
Why Preserving Historical Places and Sites Matters
WEBFeb 24, 2019 · That’s why we see places that are important to the “enemy” being targeted in times of conflict, such as the Mostar Bridge. The destruction of the old place is tantamount to the destruction ...
Eric Rauchway: When and Why Did the Parties Switch Places?
WEBMay 20, 2010 · So the switch takes place sometime between, let’s say, 1872 and 1936. That may not sound very narrow, but it’s a start. Now, we can go further by finding some landmark dates in there. One of ...
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 ...
The Native American Government That Inspired the US Constitution
WEBNov 9, 2020 · The Iroquois Confederacy dates back several centuries, to when the Great Peacemaker founded it by uniting five nations: the Mohawks, the Onondaga, the Cayuga, the Oneida and the Seneca. In around ...
Why Study History? More Than Ever, a Question that Needs …
WEBMay 31, 2020 · His latest book, co-authored with Marcus Collins, is Why Study History? (July 2020). One of the few bright features of the past two months has been the extent to which the pandemic crisis has ...
How Italians Became ‘White’ - History News Network
WEBOct 12, 2019 · How Italians Became ‘White’. Brent Staples is an author and an editorial writer for The New York Times. Congress envisioned a white, Protestant and culturally homogeneous America when it ...
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 ...