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- Poll: Millennials more open to idea of slavery reparations

- Historians meet to consider ways to rethink Grand Strategy in foreign policy

- Historian Charles Strozier in new book denies Lincoln was gay

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Sad Songs about Gay Life in Great Britain in the 1960s by Bruce Chadwick As this play shows, gay life in Great Britain was excruciatingly repressive until the passage of the 1967 bill that made homosexuality legal.

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Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson compares the EU to Hitler He has compared the European Union’s aims to those of Adolf Hitler, arguing that the 28-nation bloc is creating a superstate that mirrors the attempt of the Nazi leader to dominate the European continent.

China’s Maoists still a force 50 years after the 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution Fifty years after Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong unleashed the decade-long Cultural Revolution to reassert his authority and revive his radical communist agenda, the spirit of modern China’s founder still exerts a powerful pull.

CIA gave tip-off that led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest, former agent says A CIA agent gave the tip-off to South African authorities that led to the arrest of Nelson Mandela during the apartheid era, according to a filmmaker's interview with the agent on his deathbed.

Smithsonian Offers Sneak Peek of Museum of African-American History “This museum will reveal American history through the lens of the African-American experience. That’s literally and figuratively” said Philip Freelon, a lead architect on the project.

Obama hits milestone — he has now been at war longer than any other American president The president has approached conflict, and dealings with terror groups, as a chronic but manageable security challenge rather than an all-consuming national campaign.

Ancient tools and bone found in Florida could help rewrite the story of the first Americans The researchers say the find is unequivocal proof that people were in Florida more than 1,000 years earlier than anyone had imagined.

Israeli Leader: Iran Mocks WWII Holocaust, Prepares Another Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at Iran Sunday for staging a Holocaust-themed cartoon contest that mocked the Nazi genocide of six million Jews during World War II and said the Islamic Republic was busy planning for another one.

Does Pope Francis Have Precedent for Female Priests? The pontiff again stirred the pot this week by hinting at allowing female deacons. The history of the early Church might just give him the cover to do so.

Poll: Millennials More Open to Idea of Slavery Reparations A vast majority of white Americans say there should not be reparations for African-American descendants of slaves, but more than half of blacks say it's a good idea and Hispanics are almost evenly split, according to a new poll.

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Historians meet to consider ways to rethink Grand Strategy in foreign policy by Elizabeth M. Nielsen The meeting, held at Oregon State University, featured scholars David Greenberg, Frederik Logevall, Christiopher Nichols, David Milne, Mary Dudziak, and others.

Students protest Stanford history professor Aishwary Kumar’s tenure denial He’s an expert on non-Western intellectual history.

Allan Lichtman has predicted every presidential election since 1984 He’s still trying to figure out 2016.

The scientist as historian: Eske Willerslev Is Rewriting History With DNA As the director of the Center for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, Dr. Willerslev uses ancient DNA to reconstruct the past 50,000 years of human history.

The Dutch Prime Minister Is a Big Fan of Robert Caro The PM is fascinated by Caro’s biography of Robert Moses. Caro gave him a tour through Moses’s New York.

Historian Charles Strozier in new book denies Lincoln was gay Honest Abe shared a bed with the same man for four years, but the times were different and so was the nature of the love shared between people of the same sex.

The Obama Administration Just Granted Henry Kissinger a Distinguished Public Service Award Greg Grandin is appalled.

Ilan Pappe says Israel Is the Last Remaining, Active Settler-Colonialist Project In an interview he explains why he’s an anti-Zionist.

A Conversation with Nathaniel Philbrick He talks about his new book and why he thinks Benedict Arnold has gotten a bum rap.

The Historian Whitewashing Ukraine’s Past Volodymyr Viatrovych is erasing the country’s racist and bloody history — stripping pogroms and ethnic cleansing from the official archives.