From History News Network by Michael Brenes author of The Price of Loyalty: Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson and the Struggle for American Liberalism: Almost a year and a half later, there remains an insatiable public demand for an explanation of… Read More ›
From The Chronicle of Higher Education by Donald Yacovone: There it sat on a library cart with 50 other elementary, grammar, and high-school history textbooks, its bright red spine reaching out through time and space. As I opened the book’s… Read More ›
From Sport in American History by Jonathan Mercantini author Who Shall Rule at Home?: The Evolution of South Carolina Political Culture, 1748-1776: The 1968 baseball season was scheduled to start on April 8. Not every team was slated to play on… Read More ›
From History New Network by Alan Singer author of New York’s Grand Emancipation Jubilee: April 12 is the 154th anniversary of the Civil War battle and massacre at Fort Pillow, located on the Mississippi River near Henning, Tennessee. It was a… Read More ›
From The Washington Post by Tom Jackman: In the five decades since Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead by an assassin at age 39, his children have worked tirelessly to preserve his legacy, sometimes with sharply different views on… Read More ›
From OUP Blog by Melissa Milewski author of Litigating Across the Color Line: Civil Cases Between Black and White Southerners from the End of Slavery to Civil Rights: In 1868 North Carolina, Henry Buie’s former master sought to take his mule away… Read More ›
From History News Network by Marc Perrusquia author of A Spy in Canaan: How the FBI Used a Famous Photographer to Infiltrate the Civil Rights Movement: Bobby Doctor understood the movement came with peril. Eagerly, he dodged fists and boots while… Read More ›
From Black Perspectives by Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders: Between 1948 and 1950, a radio series called Destination Freedom aired on WMAQ, a local Chicago NBC station. Richard Durham created Destination Freedom in an attempt to profile significant African American historical figures and their contributions to American democracy and… Read More ›
It is November 2, 1930, and National Geographic has sent a reporter and a photographer to cover a magnificent occasion: the crowning of Haile Selassie, King of Kings of Ethiopia, Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah. There are trumpets, incense, priests,… Read More ›
From US History Scene by Christina Regelski: While many American regions and cities have famous fare, few will argue that the South wears the culinary crown. Southern identity is stronglylinked to its cuisine, and food has long been an enticing… Read More ›
