"Brian’s Song": What Really Happened - History News Network
WEBby Barron H. Lerner. 11-29-11. Barron H. Lerner, a professor of medicine and public health at Columbia University Medical Center, is the author of “The Breast Cancer Wars” and, most recently ...
When Did Racism Begin? The Fractious Historical Debate Explained
WEBAug 19, 2022 · The recent scholarship on medieval “racism” resolutely rejects, and seeks to overturn, a prior consensus, broadly dating from the 1990s, that the concept of race is both modern and Western ...
Why Was the Minimum Wage First Established? - History News …
WEBDec 13, 2016 · Passed under President Roosevelt, this act called for the first national minimum wage of 25 cents an hour. This created a floor on wages in the labor market and overall helped to create fairer ...
How Italians Became ‘White’ - History News Network
WEBOct 12, 2019 · How Italians Became ‘White’. Brent Staples is an author and an editorial writer for The New York Times. Congress envisioned a white, Protestant and culturally homogeneous America when it ...
Who Invented Memorial Day? - History News Network
WEBOn May 1, 1865, freed slaves gathered in Charleston, South Carolina to commemorate the death of Union soldiers and the end of the American Civil War. Three years later, General John Logan issued a ...
Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview …
WEBNov 5, 2017 · Robin Lindley is a Seattle-based writer and attorney, and the features editor of the History News Network (hnn.us). His articles have appeared in HNN, Crosscut, Salon, Real Change, Documentary ...
Why The Supreme Court Ended Up With Nine Justices—And How …
WEBSep 20, 2020 · Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1801, creating new judgeships to serve six judicial circuits and reducing the Supreme Court from six seats to five. In so doing, the law also eliminated the ...
Eric Rauchway: When and Why Did the Parties Switch Places?
WEBMay 20, 2010 · So the switch takes place sometime between, let’s say, 1872 and 1936. That may not sound very narrow, but it’s a start. Now, we can go further by finding some landmark dates in there. One of ...
It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade
WEB8-13-2007. It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade. by Sheldon M. Stern. Mr. Stern taught African American history at the college level for a decade before becoming ...
Did Lincoln Own Slaves? — History News Network
WEBIn many ways, the answer is “no.”. So no, Lincoln did not own slaves, though organizations such as these may argue otherwise. Nevertheless, the Civil War lives on in the lives and minds of ...