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2 days ago · Levity and play — eerily combined with anxiety, terror, and deadly violence — shaped the identity and image of Early Republic militias.

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 space ...

Credit: Wikimedia CommonsJournalists, it has been said, provide the “first rough draft of history.” Presumably historians come to the scene some time later and draw on a variety of sources ...

2 days ago · In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official record, upending histories for generations to come.

Aug 13, 2007 · “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies, 1927 On June 21, 2007, the Freedom Schooner Amistad began an 18-month “Atlantic Freedom Tour” to ...

Aug 19, 2022 · Historians of the medieval and modern periods disagree about whether documented prejudices in earlier eras are "racism" or whether the term necessarily implies modernity.

It’s been a quarter century since Frances Fitzgerald in America Revised critiqued our history texts, and a decade since Jim Loewen in Lies My Teacher Told Me revealed many of the biases that ...

Apr 9, 2023 · Understanding the political peril that ensnared both the pre-ratification Constitution and James Madison himself makes it clear that the Second Amendment was written to ensure that southern state ...

Jun 24, 2018 · He was accused of treason. Only the hunger for reconciliation saved him. Seven weeks after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House, Judge John C. Underwood demanded justice, while ...