New perspectives on how history is made
She may not survive Trump extreme vetting.
We should pay more attention to gray swans. What’s that?
His attacks resemble Henry Ford’s. He too was embraced by anti-Semites.
It was thanks to a philanthropist who also paid for a park in honor of Booker T. Washington.
Like many Americans he believes the US role in the Philippines was innocent. It wasn’t.
It happened in Flint, Michigan 80 years ago. We should remember it today. It was American labor’s biggest victory of the 20th century.
That’s the lesson of the anti-evolution campaigns of the 1920s.
The Voyagers launched 20 years after Sputnik. They continue 40 years later. They span 67% of the entire space age.
He was the First Founding Father – and he believed blacks deserved to be free.
That’s just how Americans felt in 1945, too.
The message Trump is sending with his pardon of such a man.
1. The monuments do not merely represent the Confederate cause or the racist beliefs of the people who erected them. 2. The fight over symbols distracts us from the fight for social justice.
It would go beyond the question, "What happened?"
But we can make a good Anthropocene as well.
He represents the worst America has to offer.
Where does his ultimate loyalty lie?
And that’s exactly what the Founding Fathers intended.
Increasingly party elders are rebelling against him.
But he might be the first to break it.
Like Columbo, we get to know the people we investigate, the whole array of characters, from heroes to villains.
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