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 The 2015 OAH Annual Meeting: Videos, News, Everythingby Rick Shenkman
Find out what American historians are thinking.
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 Whatever Happened to the Environmental Movement?by Mark Stoll
The surprising answer is that it’s lost its Presbyterian leaders.
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 Obama's Dangerous Legacy Could Include a War in Russia's Backyardby Murray Polner
The U.S. is now an active player in regions Russia views as an integral part of its sphere of influence.
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 The U.S. Discovery of Israel's Secret Nuclear Project
Now we know how the US learned about it and when.
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 At Auschwitz-Birkenau, Preserving a Site and a Ghastly Inventory
The foundation that raises money to maintain the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau has had a guiding philosophy: “To preserve authenticity.”
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 New biography shows Michelle Obama torn between class and racial identities.
Michelle Robinson Obama, an Ivy League-educated lawyer, has deep roots in the city of her birth.
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 Activists are combatting the U.S. Army's multimillion dollar commemoration of the War in Vietnam
The Department of Defense has its Vietnam. Activists have another.
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 Oldest Neanderthal DNA Found in Italian Skeleton
These molecules, which could be up to 170,000 years old, could one day help yield the most complete picture yet of Neanderthal life, researchers say.
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 ‘Lincoln never dies’ - finding his resonance 150 years later
From Washington to Lincoln’s resting place in Springfield, Illinois, the commemoration of his death echoes past grief and a nation’s defining struggle.
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 Some on the right are preparing a new strategy in case the Supreme Court backs gay marriage
Conservative activists, citing opposition in the 19th century to the Dred Scot decision, say the other 2 branches don’t have to enforce an order of the Supreme Court.
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 The 11 moments that define Hillary Clinton
The typical presidential candidate explodes onto the national scene as something of an enigma. Hillary Clinton is different.
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 Museum Strongly Condemns Iranian Holocaust Cartoon Contest
As in the first such contest, this one invites contributors to create cartoons questioning the historical truth of the Holocaust.
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 How Eleanor Roosevelt inspired Hillary Clinton’s road trip
Clinton has long capitalized on her affinity with Mrs. Roosevelt.
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 The Pulitzer Prize in history and biography go to ...
Elizabeth A. Fenn for "Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People" and David I. Kertzer for "The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe."
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 Historian Jack Ross says the Socialist Party was the most important third party of the 20th century
Recapturing the legacy of the Socialist Party was the theme of a panel discussion on “American Socialism Reconsidered” hosted by the National Press Club in Washington DC on April 9.
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 Mourning a People’s Historian: Michael Mizell-Nelson
He recently died after a brief battle with cancer. He was 49.
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 Robert V. Hine dies at 93; historian wrote of losing, regaining sight
Robert V. Hine, a memoirist, novelist and prolific historian of the American West wrote a highly praised chronicle of regaining his sight after 15 years of blindness.
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 History Manifesto authors protest coverage by the Chronicle of Higher Ed
David Armitage and Jo Guldi say the CHE didn’t provide a fair report.
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 For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers
Mr. Alford’s book, published by Oxford University Press, is already being hailed as an important contribution, with the Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer praising it as “so deeply researched and persuasively argued that it should stand as the standard portrait for years.”
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 Japanese historian says Japan is manipulating documents on disputed islands with China
He cites documents he collected in a new book.
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 Turkey was the first country to recognize the Armenian Genocide, historian says
Although modern-day Turkey continues to deny the Armenian Genocide, it’s an undeniable fact that Turkey was the first country to condemn the atrocity, expert of Turkish studies Meline Anumyan told a press conference.
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 Fresh Air Remembers Historian Stanley Kutler
In an interview Kutler said that Nixon couldn’t admit he had authorized break-ins.
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 UCLA hosts conference on Armenian Genocide
It was organized by historian Sebouh D. Aslanian.
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 Biographer of Lincoln assassin says John Wilkes Booth was a charmer
"He had drop-dead good looks, perfect teeth, great complexion. Physically, he was a marvel, a gym rat, an exercise fanatic."
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 Niall Ferguson interviews Henry Kissinger at Yale
“There’s never been a world order before. What used to be considered world order was a regional order.” — Kissinger
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