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Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. Wearing a doughboy uniform like the ones used during the war, he is holding an American flag. It covered the casket of his son Clement, who was killed in the Korean War.

Tributes of Silence, the Honor of Words

… march of troops through dueling political commercials. But history and tradition both suggest more deeply rooted … Impressions of the Civil War" (2006) and a writer for the History News Service. … Robert E. Bonner … History News Service … United States … Military/War/Peace … …
Photo of Eugene V. Debs from 1900.

Let’s Hear It for the Losers!

… is worth the effort, even if it only warrants a footnote in history. Several years ago the editorial page of a daily … at the final outcome. Some candidates in American political history not only lost, but lost spectacularly. William … dean (humanities and social sciences); chair professor of history; and director of international programs at Lingnan …
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008

Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible

… should have a deeper cause for concern. Time and again, history has shown that people who cite the Bible as a reason … with Biblical precedent, took several wives. His family’s history is a reminder that religious truths are always … point remains true today. Fred Nielsen teaches U.S. history at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. … Fred …
President Richard Nixon in 1969.

The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle

… After all, most federal campaign finance laws on the books today were enacted in response to just two scandals: … independent historian in Washington, D.C., writes for the History News Service. … Robert E. Mutch … History News Service … United States … …
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.

The Politics of Compassion

… each other over patronage and personality. Perhaps recent history can help us understand these developments. In the … the upcoming elections. Norman Markowitz is a member of the history faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and a writer for the History News Service. … Norman Markowitz … History News …
painting - the War of 1812

The Legacy of the War of 1812 Is With Us Still

… secure, the United States entered a major new phase in its history: It was now free to spread westward, unmolested. … of inconclusive results. But without the War of 1812, the history of Canada, the fate of American slaves and native … in Washington D.C., is a co-founder of the National History Center. … James M. Banner … Jr. … History News …
King Capital, caricature by the Slovenian graphic artist and illustrator Hinko Smrekar (first half of the 20th century).

Why Business Loves Laissez Faire

… age. The problem is that these free marketeers have their history exactly wrong. The Gilded Age, as Mark Twain and … to ask is: on whose behalf? Steven Conn is Professor of History and Director of Public History at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. … …
"The Bosses of the Senate" (1889). Reformers like the cartoonist Joseph Keppler depicted the Senate as controlled by the giant moneybags, who represented the nation's financial trusts and monopolies.

The Dreary Science Meets Politics

… age. The problem is that these free marketeers have their history exactly wrong. The Gilded Age, as Mark Twain and … to ask is: on whose behalf? Steven Conn is Professor of History and Director of Public History at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. … …
US Capitol, meeting place of Congress.

After Past Scandals, Real Reforms

… States today is suffering the worst corruption in the history of Congress. Even a cursory look at Congress in the … democratic reform. Nancy C. Unger is associate professor of history at Santa Clara University. She is author of “Beyond … Nature’s Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History” (Oxford University Press, 2012). … Nancy C. Unger … …
Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon walking on White House grounds.

Don’t Believe “Peace Is at Hand”

… Nixon's dilemma — to prolong a mistaken war or go down in history as the president who lost it. No wonder Bush's top … Bush read "A Savage War of Peace," Alistair Horne's history of France's long, bloody withdrawal from Algeria … http://millercenter.virginia. edu , and is a writer for the History News Service. … Ken Hughes … History News Service … …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… of Greek temples in conquered Sicily. This month, your History Talk podcast hosts Lauren Henry and Eric Michael … , A Postcard from Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews , and China Dreams and the “Road to Revival” For more information about the history of Congo and Central Africa, check out Dr. Van …
Perry speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

Governor Perry’s Vice-Presidential Mistake

… ignorance of more than 60 years of American political history.  Perry suggested that Cactus Jack, Franklin … vice presidency remains the office that Garner disparaged. History tells a different story. If the recent past is a … Saint Louis University School of Law and a writer for the History News Service. … Joel K. Goldstein … History News …
Glass negative of Kaiser Wilhelm.

A New Kind of Anti-Americanism

… as the most important international organization in history. Moreover, even traditional left-wing critics of … the American people. Norman Markowitz is a member of the history faculty at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., and a writer for the History News Service. … Norman Markowitz … History News …
Woman reading inside a newsstand in the 1950s.

Journalists and the Bomb

… close the debate on a deeply disturbing moment in American history. American news analysts once knew better. In fact, … episodes in our nation's past. Uday Hohan, a writer for the History News Service, is a graduate student at American … and American culture.  Leo Maley III, a writer for the History News Service, is a graduate student at the …
Vigil commemorating the 20th anniversary of the 1989 massacre

New Protests in China Won’t Be the Last

… organized opposition. This is too limited a way to use history when trying to make sense of China’s complicated … to ignore. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine, a writer for the History News Service and the author of "China's Brave New …
Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy meeting with Kagan.

What’s Wrong With Kagan’s Confirmation Hearings

… nominee in 1922, Sen. George Sutherland of Utah.   History and the debates of our Founders offer some sound … Convention and the presidency who writes for the History News Service. … Kathleen Gronnerud … History News Service … United States … U.S. Politics … U.S. …
Women of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared demonstrate in front of La Moneda Palace during the Pinochet military regime.

In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society

… will endure. Derek Catsam is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin and a writer for the History News Service. He is the author of "Freedom's Main … and the Freedom Rides" … Derek Charles Catsam … History News Service … Cold War … South Africa … Chile … …
The 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding

How Presidential Power Became Untouchable

… will reinforce conclusions previously drawn from the history of impeachments, or more precisely non-impeachments. … of presidential authority allowed by recent impeachment history. The presidential power now claimed by McCain will … against overreaching executive authority. Otherwise, recent history suggests, the people of the United States may pay a …
President Lyndon B. Johnson visiting American troops in Vietnam in 1966.

The Ambiguities of “Cut and Run”

… the eye of the beholder. Let’s examine some relevant recent history. Did Dwight D. Eisenhower “cut and run” in Korea in … the University of California San Diego and a writer for the History News Service. … Thomas Michael Holmes … History News Service … Middle East … Military/War/Peace … …
The federal government commissioned a series of public murals from the artists it employed: William Gropper's Construction of a Dam (1939) is characteristic of much of the art of the 1930s, with workers seen in heroic poses, laboring in unison to complete a great public project.

Guess What? The New Deal Worked!

… proposals, to declare the New Deal a failure gets the history fundamentally wrong. The legacy that FDR created … New Deal is just what we need. Steven Conn is Professor of History and Director of Public History at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. … …
Power lines.

Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence

… hours, the “great Northeast blackout” — the largest in the history of the World — returned 30 million Americans to the … and “progress.” John H. Summers, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Rochester and assistant editor of the Blackout History Project , is a writer for the History News Service. …
Protester opposing gay marriage in Boston, 2007. The sign compares gay rights in the U.S. to Nazi, Germany.

Gays, Nazis, and the GOP

… courage to tell the difference. Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University. He is the author of "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory" (Yale University Press). … Jonathan Zimmerman … History News Service … Sexuality & Reproductive Rights … …
Vaccination team member giving a cholera vaccine in Cerca Carvajal, 2013.

Cholera and the Roots of Public Health

… giving a cholera vaccine in Cerca Carvajal, 2013. The history of the cholera is critical to understanding modern … Endowment for the Humanities. … Jim Harris … Connecting History … Europe … Global/Transnational … Public Health, …