Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Wednesday 21 January 2015


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The American Internment Camp You Never Heard of

by Jan Jarboe Russell
FDR’s Executive Order 9066, which ordered the internment of Japanese, also allowed the Roosevelt administration to intern German and Italian immigrants and their American-born children.

Selma Corrects Hollywood’s History of the Civil Rights Movement

by Ron Briley
Mississippi Burning depicted a top-down Civil Rights Movement in which whites played the leading role. Selma shows what really happened.

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State of the Union Preview: Best (and Worst) Moments from History

Although President George Washington gave the first one in person before Congress in 1790, the message was delivered in writing until the early part of the 20th Century—at which point President Woodrow Wilson revived the tradition that has lasted until today.

MLK protege teaches nonviolence to new generation (video)

Long after Martin Luther King's death, his message of non-violence is carried by a protege.

New Spotify playlist compiles MLK speeches and the songs they inspired.

45 songs and recordings inspired by or about MLK.

Happy Robert E. Lee Day!

Why some states can’t celebrate MLK without remembering the Confederate general, too.

Harsh world of slavery focus of Louisiana plantation museum

Unlike other plantation museums along the Great River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the newly opened and under-construction Whitney Plantation focuses squarely on the plight of slaves.

Mapping the State of the Union

An interactive graphic shows the 1,410 different spots on the globe presidents have referenced in 224 speeches.

30 tombs, 28 chariots, 98 horse skeletons found in China

An archeological site with an age of three millennia BC has been identified and undergone primary archeological examination in the city of Nataz, Isfahan Province.

Archivist finds long-lost recording of Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at UCLA

King’s voice can again be heard — this time online

9 ways our food shopping habits have changed since 1947

They reveal the trends, tastes and spending habits of the times, and now the items in our shopping baskets are being used to chart the culinary history of the UK since 1947

Bone Tool Made By Neanderthals Found in France

Our current understanding of human evolution and behavior may change completely, now that University of Montreal researchers have discovered a bone tool from the Neanderthal era which appears to have had multiple uses.

What the collapse of ancient capitals can teach us about the cities of today

Warnings from history: Angkor was a thriving metropolis of 750,000 before a series of mega-monsoons made it unliveable. Can modern flood-threatened cities learn from its downfall?
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What obits overlooked in Lincoln scholar Harry Jaffa: His obsessive homophobia

Right-wing leader Harry Jaffa received glowing eulogies last week. But his vile homophobia must also be remembered.

Linda Gordon backs the BDS Movement but not an academic boycott of Israel

In a column in the Chronicle she lays out the argument she made at the AHA: The BDS Movement is pressuring Israel in desirable ways.

The legacy of Joan Peters and ‘From Time Immemorial’

"From Time Immemorial is an embarrassment that taints anyone who embraced it as well as those who continue to do so."

Coming Soon: David McCullough's new book

It's about the Wright Brothers. It will be published in May.

NYT History Book Reviews: Who Got Noticed this Week?

This week: Sven Beckert, Richard Dunn, and Bartow J. Elmore.

New History Textbook Series Gains Ground in Catholic Schools Nationwide

Historian Kevin Starr says: "This carefully researched, beautifully written, and elegantly designed four-volume textbook series at long last gives full weight to the contribution of Roman Catholics."

Jesus Luna, pioneer of Fresno State Chicano studies program, dead at 70

He received a doctorate degree in history from North Texas State University in 1973, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Scholar specializing in Latin American history.

Cornell is becoming a center of research into the history of capitalism (video)

The History of Capitalism Initiative is Cornell University's intellectual center for ideas, programs, research, and curriculum development on the history of American capitalism.

Eric Foner rewrites the history of the Underground Railroad

The Columbia professor debunks the debunker who claimed that the Underground Railroad was largely fictional

Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer retiring from the Met

Harold Holzer plans to retire from the Met this summer to enable him to engage more fully in his work as a historian and writer.