A mix of love and hate has characterized America’s relations with Cuba from the start. What many don't know is that the Castro brothers continued the terrorism practiced by the first Cuban revolutionaries.
Southern slaveowners Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson injected the word “freedom” into politics. But they didn't mean freedom for everybody. We live with that legacy.
It's assumed by many that they're racists (which would account for the heated demonization of Barack Obama). But maybe the opposition to Obama is just political gamesmanship.
In imposing the death penalty that federal officials committed a cruel and unjust act, no matter her guilt as an aware spectator of her husband's spying.
Even though Carter wants to be remembered as a peace president, the fact is that his presidency was crucial to the revival of American militarism after Vietnam.
In his new book 1919, The Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back, professor Krugler goes beyond previous histories of this tumultuous period by putting African Americans at the center of the story.
When telling the history of slavery we must admit its brutal complexity. The term slave mistress leaves too much unsaid, blanketing over the assault and coercion in many enslaved women's lives.
