The History of Black Incarceration Is Longer Than You May Think
WEBNov 24, 2019 · Launched in the 1980s, the war on drugs and the emergence of private, for-profit prison systems led to the imprisonment of many minorities. Other scholarship has shown that the modern mass incarceration of black Americans was preceded by a nineteenth-century surge in black imprisonment during the Reconstruction era.
The 1940s Fight Against the Equal Rights ... - History News Network
WEBMay 2, 2021 · The fight over the Equal Rights Amendment is often framed as a classic fight between liberals and conservatives with liberals supporting the amendment to ensure gender equality and conservatives opposing the amendment to preserve traditional gender roles. But the history of the ERA before the state ratification battles of the 1970s shows that the fight over complete constitutional sexual ...
Did Hitler Really Have Only One Testicle? - History News Network
WEBDid Adolf Hitler, widely considered to be one of the most evil, despicable people who ever lived, really have only one testicle?Maybe.Fans of the 1957 Bridge over the River Kwai no doubt remember the jaunty tune whistled by the British POWs as they marched into captivity:But film buffs may not be aware that the WWI-era tune, “Colonel Bogey’s March,” developed an alternate set of lyrics ...
The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad
WEBSep 15, 2019 · A case in point is Caesar, a Virginia fugitive who escaped across the Appalachian Mountains to the Ohio Country in 1774 and was adopted by the Shawnee. He married a mixed-race Shawnee woman named Sally and fathered children known to history as “Sally’s white son” and “Sally’s black son” due to their difference in hue.
The Women Who Won the Vietnam War - History News Network
WEBOct 24, 2021 · The 800,000 women who served in the Soviet Armed Forces in World War II, were recently given a place in history thanks to Svetlana Alexievich’s ground-breaking The Unwomanly Face of War (Penguin 2015) which won the Nobel Prize for Literature. (First published in Russian in 1985, it appeared in English translation thirty years later in 2015.)
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Richmond’s Robert E. Lee Statue: A Southern Unionist’s Viewpoint
WEBMar 17, 2019 · But the May 29, 1890 unveiling of a massive equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond--an event attended by a throng of more than 100,000 spectators--was the final straw. Van Lew knew that the ascendant cult of the Lost Cause, which posited a "solid South" of dauntless Confederates and loyal slaves, was …
Susan Carruthers on The Myths and History of the "Dear John" Letter
WEBJan 25, 2022 · Carruthers is a professor of U.S. and International History at the University of Warwick, England. She previously wrote other military culture-themed books, “The Good Occupation,” “The Media at War,” “Cold War Captives” and “Winning Hearts and Minds.”. She spoke with Military Times shortly before her book was published in the ...
Navassa Island: The U.S.’s 160-year Forgotten Tragedy
WEBOn December 8, 1859, to forestall a Haitian attempt to take possession of Navassa, a Caribbean island south of Cuba, U.S. Secretary of State Lewis Cass made a momentous decision. He officially recognized an American ship captain’s claim filed under the Guano Islands Act of 1856. The law allowed American citizens to claim and possess islands ...
Five Myths About Aaron Burr — History News Network
WEBThe truth about the charismatic Aaron Burr, our third vice president, was often surprising. Unsurprisingly, few historical figures have spawned so many inaccurate myths.Intensely ambitious, Burr ached to become president. Instead, he landed atop the list of America’s Bad Boys, remembered principally for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Other unflattering Burr memories include the ...