What "Crackhead" Really Meant in 1980s America
2023年7月11日 · The memories of politicians and police have been allowed to dominate our understanding of the emergence of crack cocaine in the 1980s. A new book seeks to elevate the voices of urban Black Americans and others who experienced it directly and …
Avoiding History at the National Trust — History News Network
On May 10 the National Trust for Historic Preservation joined countless local historians who, over the years, have maintained a conspiracy of silence about one of America's most shameful secrets.. Between 1890 and 1968, white Americans established thousands of towns across the United States for whites only. Many towns drove out their black populations.
Why Study History? Revisited - History News Network
2020年9月18日 · Over two decades ago I was asked to write a pamphlet for the AHA on the reasons to study history.I emphasized the variety of skills involved in history learning, from writing and developing arguments, to assessing evidence, …
freedom of information — History News Network
Matthew Connelly Presents Digital Lessons on the History of Government Secrecy. Historian Matthew Connelly offers a series of talks and lesson plans for social studies teachers about the origins and significance of government secrecy, classified information, and …
Sam Wineberg - History News Network
Sam Wineburg's "Reading Like a Historian" makes cover of Stanford magazine. Sam Wineburg, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and (courtesy) History, is the director of the Stanford History Education Group.
Pleistocene - History News Network
Middle Pleistocene teeth add new data to hominin evolution in Asia. Although a relatively large number of late Middle Pleistocene hominins have been found in East Asia, these fossils have not been consistently included in current debates about the origin of anatomically modern humans (AMHS), and little is known about their phylogenetic place in relation to contemporary hominins from Africa and ...
Richard N. Haass — History News Network
Richard N. Haass: America Can Take a Breather. And It Should. Richard N. Haass is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author, most recently, of “Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order.”THE United States is currently enjoying an unprecedented respite in the foreign policy arena — a temporary relief from the normal rigors of ...
CUNY - History News Network
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Yale University - History News Network
Marci Shore: The Banality of Merkel. Marci Shore is associate professor of history at Yale University. She is the author, most recently, of A Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe.“In West Germany people know barely anything about thirty-five years of my life,” Angela Merkel, today the powerful prime minister of a unified Germany, said in a 2004 interview.
rationalism - History News Network
History, Evidence and the Ethics of Belief by Guy Lancaster. Untrammelled freedom of belief has been enshrined as an American civic virtue. The nation, democracy, and possibly the planet are imperiled without a collective commitment to respect belief only to …