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. Explore our archive ...

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 space ...

History News Network puts current events into historical perspective.

Aug 13, 2007 · “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” Aldous Huxley, Proper Studies, 1927 On June 21, 2007, the Freedom Schooner Amistad began an 18-month “Atlantic Freedom Tour” to ...

4 days ago · In 1880, the daughter of a Welsh politician turned to fiction to expose perspectives missing from the official record, upending histories for generations to come.

Dec 21, 2014 · We Shall Fight on the Beaches Who: Winston Churchill When: June 4, 1940 Why it matters: The speech was designed to inspire the British people and impress Americans with the resolve of the British ...

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 ...

Aug 19, 2022 · Historians of the medieval and modern periods disagree about whether documented prejudices in earlier eras are "racism" or whether the term necessarily implies modernity.

Feb 9, 2021 · "The Federal Writers’ Project ex-slave narratives produced tens of thousands of pages of interviews and hundreds of photographs—the largest, and perhaps the most important, archive of ...

The Meaning of the Mandate by James A.S. Sunderland Israelis and Palestinians both invoke their territory’s colonial past to support their national claims. What does that use of history obscure?