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Official Portrait of President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan

“The Reagans”: The Spirit of Censorship Lives

… history. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, complained that the CBS script contains language … very nature, interpretive. Dramatic representations of the past always contain inventions, because the creators of … culture and politics, and is a writer for the History News Service. …
Wedding rings.

Getting Government Out of Marriage, and Vice Versa

… so that all Jews could go back to biblical ways. The Ten Commandments are mute about gay marriage. Males in a homosexual union are at least less likely than … Massachusetts ruling, that might ultimately lower current passions. It would completely remove the state from the …
John Quincy Adams

John Quincy Adams: An Example for Our Times

… Adams’s hunger for posterity’s approval, he would doubtless be pleased, if also appalled that history is now more … all, to effect mental, moral, and national improvement. Commitment to improvement of self and nation motivated … in the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death, service that began shortly after his unsuccessful one-term …
Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's 1912 illustration, The First Thanksgiving, 1621

Now, About that First Thanksgiving Dinner…

… are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … for a feast that lasted four days. No one worried about cholesterol or obesity in 1621! Though they don’t have much … as the myth has it, sit down at tables, bless their food or pass the serving dishes. It’s more likely that food was set …
Image of a junior high school classroom from Harris & Ewing Photographs.

An Historic Opportunity in Education

… enact this substantial change to Title I. This 35-year-old compensatory education legislation has failed to reach its … effect, it will destroy the liberty of the people.” This past decade has been anomalous. Both presidents Bush (the … and the editor of the Federal Education Policy History website. He is the author of "Failing Grades: The Federal …
typewriter

The Legacy of a Lady

… had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to Katrina … policy. Catherine Allgor, a writer for the History News Service, is a professor of history and a Presidential Chair … History News Service
Laura Bush May 18, 2008.

The Legacy of a Lady

… had done as First Lady. This impressive list of projects encompasses domestic causes from historic preservation to Katrina … policy. Catherine Allgor, a writer for the History News Service, is a professor of history and a Presidential Chair … History News Service
Space Shuttle Columbia launching

Can We Boldly Go There Any More?

… atmosphere. The second fact will be relearned in the coming weeks as we emerge from our shock at this tragedy and … than have died in shuttle accidents. One reason for the lesser mortality among astronauts is that the very high cost … cost will, again, be in the billions. For comparison, a 747 passenger plane costs about $150 million. The annual budgets …
Allen Weinstein

Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?

… not only for preserving government records of the past, but also for making them available to the public. This … Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 commission. Decisions about access to these materials should … the Ivory Tower (2005), and a writer for the History News Service. He is also a professor of history at the University …
The original Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, known popularly as the Treaty of Tripoli, written in Arabic, signed 4 November 1796.

Obama Disregards History in Favor of Diplomacy

… President Obama went to Egypt ten days ago to create common ground between America and Islam. In the process he … and respect.” But, along with this plea to rectify a past filled with violence and intolerance, he rewrote early American-Islamic history to create a mythic past of friendship and tolerance.   The president no doubt …
The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Critique of NATO’s Expansion

… to expand NATO is based on an outdated crusade against communism, a crusade launched against the Soviet Union in … of NATO is not only unnecessary, it is based on devotion to past anti-communist cliches. In addition, based on the … University (Athens, Ohio) and a writer for the History News Service. …
President Reagan in February 1985.

Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?

… is long gone. He’s rolled the dice on an ambitious but treacherous health care agenda whose passage is far from certain. He operates within a poisonous … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues …
General Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1945.

Second-Guessing Hiroshima?

… Hiroshima, the personal pilot of General Douglas MacArthur, commander of Allied forces in the Pacific, recorded in his … weapons to end World War II cannot easily be defended. The passage of time has done nothing to alter these considered … judgments. Uday Hohan, a writer for the History News Service, is a graduate student at American University who is …
UN forces crossing the 38th Parallel in 1950.

Why We Need to Rearm Iraq

… by hostile states or require an open-ended U.S. military commitment to Iraq. In short, this issue is of crucial … to what this country has maintained in South Korea for the past 50 years. Either situation would be more expensive than … and Balancing" (2003) and is a writer for History News Service. …
Power lines.

Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence

… year of anticipating “Y2K” has served to remind us that the computers we call “personal” actually answer to specialized … these two famous blackouts. Yet large-scale power failures, past and present, also have something in common: they reveal … Blackout History Project , is a writer for the History News Service. …
Official portrait of President Gerald R. Ford (February 25, 1976).

Will Vindication Elude Ford?

… evening, his well-deserved vindication will probably never come. Thrust into a difficult situation — one he handled … was the best one available. But more than 30 years have passed since Gerald Ford left the White House. The anger of … University, Pomona, and a writer for the History News Service. …
The 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding

How Presidential Power Became Untouchable

… Congressman Dennis Kucinich has presented 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush to the House of … or the Republican who aspires to succeed him. If so, the outcome will reinforce conclusions previously drawn from the … or more precisely non-impeachments. The legacy of the past 40 years has, ironically and alarmingly, been a sense …
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls.

Why Today’s Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt

… several TR quotations — in Osawatomie, Kansas, the site of Roosevelt’s 1910 “New Nationalism Address.” … today might be explained, not by his policies, but by his passionate political style.  TR held strongly felt beliefs, … a Milwaukee auditorium to deliver a speech. True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going …
Portrait of Jimmy Carter from 1979.

The Nobel Committee Speaks to America

… Carter. By giving him this honor at this time, the Nobel Committee seized the opportunity to express its concern over … initiated toward Iraq. Both the timing and the citation accompanying the prize hinted at more than Carter's undisputed … Wilson got his for displaying leadership at the 1919 Versailles Conference after World War I. These awards came at the …
Taxation without Representation, Suffrage Collection.

Death, Taxes, and the American Founders

… the need for savings versus the need for resources for the common good.  For many of today's issues — such as Internet … question of how much property the dead should be allowed to pass on to their children.  For us, it is partly a fiscal … farmers and landless men on whom it depended for military service, Virginia banned primogeniture and entail in 1777. …
Caricature of President Nixon in 1970.

Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative

… his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 decision that … but historical parallels suggest that their time has passed. In criticizing the International Monetary Fund, for … University South Bend and is a writer for the History News Service. …
Richesons Church in Hyannis, Massachusetts.

The Separation of Church and State Is Rooted in American Christianity

… and state corrupted both institutions. The state risked becoming subject to religious controversies that would … church to a "civil master." In the Revolutionary era the lessons of history, the ideals of the Revolution, the … University in Bellingham and a writer for the History News Service. …
Restored color photo of President Rutherford B. Hayes.

Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?

… part of government in a deliberative republic, in which dispassionate, informed, independent Electors — members of a … called the Electoral College, not average people given to passionate opinions — would be the final decision makers. … With charges of fraud flying, Congress set up an electoral commission to settle the issue of who would be the next …