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William Calley Jr. mugshot for charges involving the My Lai massacre.

Was William Calley a Scapegoat?

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Oval Office in 2009.

Don’t Get Tough, Barack

… government. You were right to remind us of that. It’s good history, and it reflects a willingness to give credit where … and the Great Migration' (1989) and a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service …

Transmission tower in Tennessee in the 1940s.

Back to the Future With Thomas A. Edison

A gay march in Minneapolis on June 30, 1973, the first in the country with the headline "Gay Pride".

Homosexuality and Prohibition

… at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of … History News Service …

First edition dust jacket cover of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 1973 book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. The book conveys Thompson's experience covering the 1972 US presidential election, particularly the (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign of Democratic nominee George McGovern.

Democrats Must Beware the Curse of 1972

… as his running mate but quickly dropped him when Eagleton’s history of depression was disclosed. And he could never … at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. … History News Service …

September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War

Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.

He Led His People Into the Desert

Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)

… seeking or deeply private, the man, much like the larger history of nineteenth-century Mormonism, defies easy … one of the most controversial figures in American religious history. Previous biographers of Young tend to fall in the … It is only in the past fifty years that Mormon history on the whole has moved from an inward, …

Second-Guessing Hiroshima?

An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps corporal fires his weapon at a wounded, unarmed Iraqi lying on the floor of a gutted mosque in Fallujah, Nov. 13, 2004. by Kevin Sites found on NPR.org

Shooting the Wounded: What Are the Rules Now?

… at No Gun Ri in 1950. These stories did not appear in textbooks or popular histories, and when they were brought up in … at the University of Notre Dame and a writer for the History News Service. [The Medieval Institute, University of … History News Service …

Soviet soldiers riding on a combat vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1986.

The United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan

Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Robert Maynard in Ocracoke Bay; romanticized depiction by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1920.

Why Piracy Remains a Threat

… up by newspapers, and some captives even wrote tell-all books. Playwrights and novelists soon dramatized them in … backlash. Lawrence A. Peskin is an associate professor of history at Morgan State University in Baltimore and author … History News Service …

President George W. Bush sitting at his desk across from his dogs in 2005.

He’s Just a Prez Who Can’t Say No

… is not a strong leader. Peter B. Levy is a professor history at York College in York, Penn., and a writer for the History News Service. … History News Service …

Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict

… from the ways of modernity. If they understood the full history behind Chanukah, many would see the Maccabees as … at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer for History News Service. … History News Service …

Visitors stroll the first section of the High Line Park, over the 18th Street crossing. Frank Gehry's IAC building is in the background.

The High Line: It’s About the Real Estate

Contrabands—fugitive slaves—cooks, laundresses, laborers, teamsters, railroad repair crews—fled to the Union Army, but were not officially freed until 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation.

In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten

Does the First Amendment Separate Church and State?

… the Howard R. Lamar Professor Emeritus of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale University. … History News Service …

President George W. Bush shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao following his visit and meeting Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008, with the Chinese leader at Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leaders compound in Beijing.

What Open Skies Can Do For Chinese-American Relations

Computers utilized by U.S. Navy personnel in 1998.

What the Internet Will Bring Us

Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the early 1930s.

The Four Freedoms in the War Against Terrorism

… of the world in 1945. 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. … History News Service …

The Kaiser Permanente Building after the Northridge Earthquake in 1994.

California Freeways: Still Seismically Unsafe

… new freeway. William P. McGowan is a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He … Transportation System," an article in "California History" (Summer 1993) that was adopted by CalTrans as part … History News Service …

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