‘History / Archaeology’ Archives
New Deal
New Deal New Deal is the name given to the first administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt, covering the period 1933–37. The term was used to suggest that legislation and social programs would be enacted to address the needs of working and middle-class citizens, not just those in upperincome brackets. It was first used in Roosevelt’s [...]
Acoma Pueblo
Acoma Pueblo Acoma Pueblo is a 70-acre village in New Mexico. It was built on top of a mesa that is almost 400 feet high. Another name for this pueblo is Sky City. It is believed to have been built in the 1100s. Its high location and steep sides protected the Acoma people from raiders. The Acoma Pueblo is said to be the oldest continually [...]
Algonkin
Algonkin Algonkin (also known as Algonquin) lived 5,000 years ago along the Ottawa River in Canada and parts of what is now Michigan. They hunted and fished and grew corn, beans, and squash. They waterproofed their canoes with tree resin and animal fat. They also made metal tools with copper mined from land in what is present-day Ontario, [...]
Native Americans
Native Americans In 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from Europe to North America and changed the world forever. Soon people from crowded European cities learned of the New World — a big, beautiful place where they could hunt, farm, and worship in freedom. For the millions of people already living there, however, this world was not new, it [...]
Rosenbergs
Why were the Rosenbergs executed for espionage? The explosive Hiss story captured the headlines at about the same time that Americans learned that Klaus Fuchs, a respected German-born physicist who had worked on the Manhattan Project developing the atomic bomb at Columbia University and later at Los Alamos during the war, had been passing [...]
The Pentagon scandal
The Pentagon Scandal In the summer of 1971, President Richard Nixon learned that what you don’t know can hurt you. In June 1971, the New York Times ran a headline that hardly seemed sensational: “Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U.S. Involvement.” What the headline did not say was that the study also traced [...]
The Gay Plague
The Gay Plague Germs and what goes on behind bedroom doors have always taken a back seat to dates and battles and speeches in most history books, but they have often had much more to do with history than most politicians, kings, generals, or court decisions ever did. Squeamishness among teachers, academics, and publishers, along with [...]
Bubba
Bubba Although it won’t go down as one of the great presidential pronouncements like, “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country,” when candidate Bill Clinton told America, “I tried it once, but I didn’t inhale,” it certainly was memorable. During the primary battles of 1998, Bill Clinton was [...]
Irrational Exuberance
Irrational Exuberance He saved the world at least three or four times. He cost George Bush I his reelection in 1992. He made everybody in America rich by causing the markets to soar. When he used the phrase “irrational exuberance” to describe a stock market that he feared might be too high in 1996, he sent tremors through the global [...]
Alfred the Great
Alfred the Great Alfred the Great (849-901), was the king of West Saxons; after defeating the Danes became overlord of all England, so that he is often reckoned the first English king. His work for education was of supreme importance: he founded many schools and brought teachers from all parts of the world. His own writings included [...]
