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These 11 Speeches from the Last Two Centuries Changed the World
Dec 21, 2014 · FDR’s First Inaugural Address. Who: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt When: March 4, 1933 Why it matters: Amidst one of the most crippling economic crises in history, FDR wanted to forcefully ...
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About Us. History News Network (HNN) was founded in 2001 to help put current events into historical perspective. Its original mandate, as articulated by founder Rick Shenkman, was to create a ...
Stories of Slavery, From Those Who Survived It
Feb 9, 2021 · History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present.
Why Preserving Historical Places and Sites Matters
Feb 24, 2019 · History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present.
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb
Oct 29, 2021 · Read a detailed account of the moment in the Cold War when the United States and Soviet Union contemplated, then developed and tested, nuclear weapons of horrifying power.
The Expansion of Presidential Power Since 1973
May 26, 2019 · Nearly a half century ago, famed historian and scholar Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. published The Imperial Presidency.This path breaking work described the growing centralization of the executive ...
50 Years After the Paris Accords: How the US ... - History News …
Jan 29, 2023 · Ho Chi Minh City, 2022. On January 27, 1973 the United States officially ended its war in Vietnam by signing the Paris Peace Accords and withdrawing from a land where it had been involved in ...
1956: A Year that Changed America — History News Network
Sep 18, 2016 · In January 1960, Harper’s Magazine published an essay by the Bancroft-Prize-winning historian Eric Goldman entitled, “Good-Bye to the ’Fifties—and Good Riddance.” Goldman, a Princeton ...
Eric Rauchway: When and Why Did the Parties Switch Places?
May 20, 2010 · History News Network puts current events into historical perspective. Subscribe to our newsletter for new perspectives on the ways history continues to resonate in the present.