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How the War on Drugs Came Between the U.S. and Mexico

The debate has been going on since the Nixon years

By Aaron Brown / History News Network

How the Nixon Administration Got the CIA to Distort Intelligence

Nixon lied about Soviet nuclear tests and the CIA went along

By Ray Locker / History News Network

How the Meaning of Wounded Knee Has Evolved Over 125 Years

Lakota activists have reshaped the history of a moment whites once celebrated as a victory

By David W. Grua / History News Network

How Informants Fueled the FBI’s Decades-Long Hunt for Gay Americans

It began long before McCarthyism

By Douglas M. Charles / History News Network

These 'Star Wars' Plot Devices Are Centuries Old

Innovations in children’s literature in the 19th century brought us Luke Skywalker

By Paul Ringel / History News Network

Why the United States Was Late to End Slavery

The story of what it took to bring about the institution's demise involves an amazing alliance struck between abolitionists and slaves

By Patrick Rael / History News Network

What Abraham Lincoln Would Vote for Today

There's an ongoing battle to complete the 'unfinished work' he began

By Harold Holzer and Norton Garfinkle / History News Network

How Being a War Reporter Shaped Winston Churchill's Life

When he saw war up close, he was appalled by it

By Simon Read / History News Network

The Long History of Conflict Between Russia and Turkey

There are centuries of animosity between them

By Jonathan Adelman / History News Network

Modern Atheism Isn't Actually All That New

The word atheos is Greek, and seems to have first been used in our sense in the fifth century BCE

By Tim Whitmarsh / History News Network

The Democratic Socialist Who Ran for President Almost a Century Ago

It was from his prison cell

By Lawrence Wittner / History News Network

Why There's No World War I Memorial on the U.S. National Mall

The nation hasn't yet figured out how to remember the war that gave us Veterans Day

By Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee / History News Network

The History Behind Manhattan's Street Grid

The story of its origins shows it was the result of mostly slapdash planning

By Gerard Koeppel / History News Network

Bernie Sanders Isn't the Only Famous Democratic Socialist in American History

From Helen Keller to Martin Luther King Jr., many famous Americans have identified as Socialists or Democratic Socialists

By Lawrence Wittner / History News Network

The History Behind the Largest Privately Owned Estate in Washington, D.C.

It's nearly the same size as the White House compound

By Steven Knipp / History News Network

Why So Many Americans Claim Cherokee Ancestry

The number of Americans who self-identify as Cherokee or mixed-race Cherokee has grown substantially over the past two decades

By Gregory D. Smithers / History News Network

The Origins of Illegal Surveillance in the United States Go Back to the 1930s

An oral history just released shows that cryptologists working for the Army knew they were breaking the law when they conducted secret electronic surveillance

By Steve Usdin / History News Network

The Hidden Story of the Children Who Survived the Holocaust

The knowable and unknowable story remained untold for years

By R. D. Rosen / History News Network

This Is How Europe Came to Dominate the World by the 20th Century

There’s a lesson in this we should keep in mind as we resist the onslaught of ISIS

By Philip T. Hoffman / History News Network

The Shameful History of the KKK You Probably Never Knew

The Klan operated in California and other western states after the Civil War. Its target in those states was frequently Chinese laborers

By Kevin Waite / History News Network
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