Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Friday 27 March 2015


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The Scene of the Crime

by Seymour M. Hersh
A reporter’s journey to My Lai and the secrets of the past.

Murky waters: partisanship and foreign policy

by Lewis L. Gould
It’s time to retire the hoary phrase about politics and the water’s edge. It was never a guiding principle of American foreign policy before 1900.

The War on Poverty: Was It Lost?

by Christopher Jencks
A new review suggests a higher ratio of success to failure than opinion polls do.

When The KKK Was Mainstream

by Linton Weeks
Wait a minute. The Ku Klux Klan once had a baseball team?

Turncoats We Have Known

by Rick Perlstein
How leftists turned into rightists: they projected their own extremism onto the entire left and thus became conservative heroes.

What happens when inmates write a history of their own prison?

by Rebecca Onion
Inmates at America’s oldest women’s prison are writing a history of it—and exploding the myth of its benevolent founders.

The first black adolescent to become a millionaire

by Steve Gerkin
Historical records conflict over the issue of the first black female millionaire, though Sarah Rector was the first black adolescent to achieve millionaire status, hands down. Her road to riches involved mandated endowment, racial triumph, and good fortune.

Plan Bibi

by Andrew Meyer
The most recent Israeli election compels Zionists to examine our principles.

What Is Deism?

by Thomas Kidd
Most deists really did consider themselves serious theists, and many considered themselves devotees of Jesus and his teachings. Their deism was not just a convenient cloak for atheism.

Fight for black voting rights precedes the Constitution

by Van Gosse
In Boston and New York, leaders like John Hancock and Aaron Burr actively recruited “electors of color” after the American Revolution.

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Joan Baez, Sly Stone, Steve Martin, Ben E. King -- all honored by the Library of Congress

Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian, with advice from the Library’s National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB), is tasked with annually selecting 25 recordings that are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and are at least 10 years old.

Did Israel steal uranium from a town in Pennsylvania in the 1960s?

In the 1960s, hundreds of pounds of uranium went missing in Pennsylvania. Is it buried in the ground, poisoning locals — or did Israel steal it to build the bomb?

Sequel to Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom to be published next year

Pan Macmillan announces it has acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to book which is likely to tackle Mandela’s divorce from his second wife Winnie and why he opted to stand down after a single term.

Controversial anti-gun ad explains each gun's bloody history

A publicity stunt where prospective gun-buyers are told about the graphic history of each weapon has enraged US conservatives.

The Guardian is running a series on the history of cities

It features Syria’s war-scarred citadel of Aleppo — the oldest city in the world

Arab museum buys Gilbert Stewart portrait of George Washington

Abu Dhabi has announced they have paid the Armand Hammer Foundation a hefty undisclosed sum for a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington.

FDR attendance figures offer glimpse into local tourism

Buoyed by a PBS documentary on the Roosevelts by Ken Burns, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in 2014 welcomed 173,000 visitors, the highest attendance since 1989.

Secret Nazi hideout believed found in remote Argentine jungle

"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, in a site which at that time was totally inaccessible."

A Historical Hurdle to a Democratic ‘Third Term’ in 2016?

Since the end of the 20-year Democratic run in the White House that began with Franklin D. Roosevelt and ended with Harry Truman, there have been six occasions when either major party could have extended its control of the White House to three terms.

The men who uncovered Assyria

Two of the ancient cities now being destroyed by Islamic State lay buried for 2,500 years, it was only 170 years ago that they began to be dug up and stripped of their treasures.

Greece fights German bailout demands with Nazi-era claims

It was 1943 and the Nazis were deporting Greece's Jews to death camps in Poland. Hitler's genocidal accountants reserved a chilling twist: The Jews had to pay their train fare.