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Eleanor Roosevelt on Labor Day: 'One of the Most Significant Days'

She supported the involvement of labor in politics

By Brigid O’Farrell / History News Network

How Historians Should Write About the Anthropocene

An approach from 250 years ago could shed light on a changing planet

By Frank Palmeri / History News Network

The Race of the Century that Marked the End of the Wild West

Nine cowboys. 1,000 miles. And cries that the race was so hard on the horses the riders should be locked up

By Richard A. Serrano / History News Network

The Zika Virus Mosquito Is So Dangerous the Military Considered Using It as a Weapon

Here’s how it snuck into the U.S. after World War II

By Rod Tanchanco / History News Network

Advice From the Woman Who Ran for President in 1940

Celebrity candidate Gracie Allen ran under the banner of the Surprise Party

By Greg Bailey / History News Network

The Long History of Supreme Court Justices Getting Political

The roll call of justices who sought the presidency suggests that the court has never been "above" politics

By Ronald L. Feinman / History News Network

The Century-Long Fight Over Rural American Schools

A fight in Iowa and Vermont over schools has implications for the rest of the country

By Campbell F. Scribner / History News Network

The Forgotten Law That Put Americans in Jail for Their Beliefs

Author Scott Martelle discusses the 1949 Smith-Act trial in which eleven leaders of the Communist Party, USA were tried and imprisoned

By Aaron Leonard / History News Network

The Revolutionary Role of the Gay Bar in American History

The Orlando shooting is an especially grievous insult in view of the role that gay bars have played in LGBTQ history

By Nancy C. Unger / History News Network

The D-Day Myth About Winston Churchill’s Pet Project

It’s about the role of Mulberries in the invasion and it’s just plain misleading

By Craig L. Symonds / History News Network

The Forgotten Material That Changed the World

The once-ubiquitous substance allowed fast technological progress in the 19th century

By Ben Wilson / History News Network

The Rise and Fall and Rise of Socialism in America

Whether or not Bernie Sanders reaches the White House, it’s clear that democratic socialism has made a comeback in American life

By Lawrence Wittner / History News Network

The Generation Gap That History Forgot

A generation before the '60s another group of young people resisted their elders’ entreaties to prepare for war

By Marc Wortman / History News Network

The Strange, Forgotten Story of the 'Nazi Titanic'

The British bombed the ship at the end of the war, killing thousands of Holocaust survivors

By Robert P. Watson / History News Network

This Is How Douglas MacArthur Became an American Hero

In a crisis we're desperate for leaders—and he was the only available leader around in 1942

By Walter R. Borneman / History News Network

Why Jane Jacobs Matters Now

The answer is in her last book, which almost no one reads or remembers

By Peter L. Laurence / History News Network

How the U.S. Went From the 'Age of Jackson' to Tubman on the 20

A biographer of Harriet Tubman recalls the long struggle to gain academic recognition of Tubman's contributions.

By Catherine Clinton / History News Network

An American Who Went From Socialist to Democrat Before Bernie Sanders

Like the Vermont senator, Carl Sandburg was a devoted socialists in his youth who later came to embrace the Democratic Party

By Walter G. Moss / History News Network

What Eleanor Roosevelt Said About Equal Pay for Women

It was an issue she worked on for many years

By Brigid O’Farrell / History News Network

Fact-Checking the White House's Supreme Court History

The Obama administration claims that every nominee to the Court since 1875 has received a hearing or an up or down vote. So what happened in 1875?

By Brian Johnson / History News Network
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