Preservation Virginia releases its annual list of ‘most endangered' places, sites
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-13 11:52:34 -0700 | political-news
Preservation Virginia's annual most endangered list includes Arlington National Cemetery, a network of rural schools that aimed to improve educational opportunities for young black students in rural areas, and Manassas Battlefield. The private, non-profit preservation group on Monday identified...
New Canadian Museum of History remains apolitical
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-11 13:47:42 -0700 | political-news
There is little evidence in the more detailed descriptions to support concerns that the mandated refocusing of the museum would effectively rewrite Canadian history to emphasize certain values the military, for example or, perhaps, embellish the fathers of Canadian conservativism.....
A political history of the cicadas
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-11 13:47:42 -0700 | political-news
The " Great East Coast Cicada Sex Invasion of 2013 " is upon us. After 17 years of feeding and living under the earth's surface, billions of "Brood II" cicadas will emerge this summer between Connecticut and Georgia, swarming in...
Doug Brinkley makes cover of Rolling Stone for Joe Biden interview
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-10 12:06:46 -0700 | political-news
Douglas Brinkley, the prolific Rice University historian who has already twice graced the cover of Rolling Stone (first for his interview of Bob Dylan in 2009, then for his interview of Barack Obama in 2012) has done it again. Brinkley's...
Jonathan Zimmerman: The Prom -- An American Relic
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-10 08:59:20 -0700 | political-news
Jonathan Zimmerman teaches history and education at New York University...In 1954 , American Girl magazine published a book of beauty tips for young women. It included helpful suggestions about preparing for the ultimate American beauty contest: the high school prom....
Ex-official: Heritage has betrayed Reagan
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 17:52:16 -0700 | political-news
During the Reagan Revolution, the Heritage Foundation was seen as the soul of the free market conservative revival. As senior vice president for research at the think tank from 1981 through 1992, Burton Pines was in charge of its intellectual...
Alan Brinkley: Fighting the Gun World
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 15:51:59 -0700 | political-news
Alan Brinkley, the Allan Nevins professor of history at Columbia University, is the author of "Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression" and "The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War." His most...
Christian Caryl: 1979 and the Birth of the Chinese Economic Miracle
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 08:42:56 -0700 | political-news
It is inevitable, perhaps, that we tend to focus on leaders when we examine grand political and economic transitions...Deng Xiaoping and his colleagues triumphed precisely because they unleashed the creativity and the entrepreneurial urges of millions of Chinese.
Pankaj Mishra: Sun At Last Setting on Britain's Imperial Myth
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 08:42:55 -0700 | political-news
Pankaj Mishra is an Indian author and writer of literary and political essays. His books include Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond. His new work, From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against...
New German plaque for downed Dambuster bomber
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 08:42:53 -0700 | political-news
Of all the commemorations marking this month's 70th anniversary of the Second World War's most famous bombing raid, it is perhaps the most poignant. A new plaque has been unveiled in a German field where one of the Dambuster bombers...
Illustrated letters go on sale at Sotheby's
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 08:42:51 -0700 | political-news
On a hot Provencal day in July 1890, Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo blocking out, as he often did, space for a drawing. In it a black cat stealthily circles a dead painter's garden. The portentous ink...
History changes course in Pacific
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 07:26:38 -0700 | political-news
Pacific universities for the first time ever if plans devised by local history academics come to pass. The collaboration between academics led by Max Quanchi and Morgan Tuimalealiifano aims to produce a Pacific-wide undergraduate history course to be taught at...
Manuel Barcia: Niall Ferguson Does a Romney
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-09 07:25:42 -0700 | political-news
Dr. Manuel Barcia is Deputy Director at the Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Leeds. Over the past few years as gays, lesbians and transsexuals made social gains across the world, they have found themselves at...
David Milne: Editing an Encyclopedia
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-08 12:07:25 -0700 | political-news
When I was invited to review the second volume of Odd Arne Westad's and Melvyn Leffler's The Cambridge History of the Cold War in 2010, I compared the enterprise to Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie -- which I intended both as a compliment...
Medieval hermit pope not murdered, as believed
Source: HNN
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-08 06:00:34 -0700 | political-news
Celestine V, the hermit pope who set precedent for Benedict XVI, has been given a new face and fate by researchers who have examined his skeletal remains. The last pontiff not chosen by a conclave and the first to declare...
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