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Reagan, Bush Also Acted Without Congress To Shield Immigrants From Deportation

Turkey's Erdogan: Muslims got to America before Columbus

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If Obama Faces Impeachment over Immigration, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Should Have as Well by John Dickson All four skirted Congress, at times overtly flouting their administrative prerogative, to implement a guest worker program.

The Campaign to Keep Millions of Immigrants in the Shadows Doesn't Even Stand Up to 16th Century Standards of Natural Rights by Elliott Young President Obama’s proposal to focus immigration enforcement on violent criminals and allow millions of immigrants to gain legal status is not a radical or new idea.

Here We Go Again: Tests for the Common Core May Be Unfair to Some and Boring To All by Jim Loewen Old-fashioned multiple-choice tests are often biased against African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans, and sometimes against females -- yet we keep relying on them.

Are Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, etc. Worth the Life of a Single U.S. Soldier or Marine? by Murray Polner A new and non-interventionist foreign policy?

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Construction company tries to cover up Byzantine structure with cement Officials of the Istanbul Archaeology Museum sent two archaeologists to the construction site to examine the entrance of the cistern and work was halted.

No one can read this book, but perhaps now that it’s online someone will figure out how. It’s the Medieval Voynich Manuscript.

Karkemish archaeologists dig metres away from ISIS-controlled territory Dig site is close to Syrian city that now flies the extremist group's black banner

Latest fad among the super rich? Buying up Napoleon artifacts The rising prices have set off a new Napoleonic war of sorts, with private collectors competing aggressively with buyers for public museums.

Turkey's Erdogan: Muslims discovered Americas Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming that Muslim sailors reached the Americas more than 300 years before explorer Christopher Columbus.

The Comfort Women and Japan’s War on Truth Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration denies that imperial Japan ran a system of human trafficking and coerced prostitution, implying that comfort women were simply camp-following prostitutes.

Reagan, Bush Also Acted Without Congress To Shield Immigrants From Deportation There was no political explosion then comparable to the one Republicans are threatening now.

150 Years Later, Wrestling With a Revised View of Sherman’s March To any number of Southerners, the Civil War general remains a ransacking brute and bully whose March to the Sea, which began here 150 years ago on Saturday, was a heinous act of terror.

Human Footprints Discovered In Denmark Date Back 5,000 Years The first of their kind to be found in Denmark, the footprints may shed light on what life was like for coastal people during the Stone Age.

Documents raise fresh questions about thalidomide criminal trial A summary of findings raises questions about whether Germany’s federal government reached a backroom deal with both the drug company and the state prosecutor in charge of the criminal case.

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Nebraska’s new senator is a historian with a degree from Yale whose dissertation explained why Christians went into revolt in the 1960s Sasse argues that journalists and historians have misapprehended, and indeed misreported, the story of the rise of the modern religious right.

Hottest subfield in history today may be the history of capitalism ... but The Nation wonders what happens if growth stalls (or if we're better off if it does) Capitalism’s newest critics offer a groundbreaking account of slavery, but does their economic history add up?

WaPo editorial writer says the fight in Colorado over the AP standards was all about the local teachers union To understand what happened in Jefferson County, you have to understand what happened next door in Douglas County, a heavily Republican suburb, over the last few years.

American Studies Assoc. president defends groups' boycott of Israel "To condemn violence against Israel while opposing a nonviolent boycott is to say that the Palestinians, under endless occupation, should not resist at all."

Robert Caro says he went 40 years before opening again his book on Robert Moses (video) The authors Robert A. Caro, Paul Auster and Jane Smiley, whose annotated first editions will be auctioned off at Christie’s, reflect on the process of revisiting their past works.

AHA will feature a panel devoted to James McPherson’s Battle Cry of Freedom. It’s 25 years old! This panel will bring together historians from all sides to critique McPherson’s work and discuss new trends and changes in Civil War scholarship.

Historian Timothy Snyder: Ukrainian crisis is not about Ukraine, it’s about Europe Events in Ukraine have no effect on what Russia does or says, because its propaganda is not based on reality but on pushing Europe’s sensitive buttons.

Self-sufficiency deeply rooted in Iran’s national culture, historian says Iranian studies expert Rudi Matthee says the presiding sentiment in Iran is, “The world needs Iran more than Iran needs the world.”

History Bachelors Decline, but Several Upward Trends Persist The history major is not in decline across the board.

A writer in Paraguay has been sentenced to prison for alleged plagiarism of a historical novel PEN International Writers in Prison Committee reports today that the Paraguayan writer Nelson Aguilera was sentenced to 30 months in prison for alleged plagiarism in 2013.

Kissinger warns of West’s ‘fatal mistake’ that may lead to new Cold War If the West wants to be “honest,” it should recognize, that it made a “mistake,” he said of the course of action the US and the EU adopted in the Ukrainian conflict.

Yale historian Beverly Gage discovers uncensored version of the FBI letter blackmailing Martin Luther King Apparently hoping to derail King’s acceptance of the Nobel Prize, J. Edgar Hoover had one of his deputies, William Sullivan, write a smear letter to King.