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'A Woman Of No Importance' Finally Gets Her Due

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 16 Comments • an hour ago

Virginia Hall is one of the most important American spies most people have never heard of. Her story is on display at the CIA Museum inside the spy agency headquarters in Langley, Va. — but this...

Why Ancient Rome Needed Immigrants to Become Powerful

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 30 Comments • 18 hours ago

The Caesars embraced newcomers, less out of idealism than out of self-interest. BARRY STRAUSSHow “Roman” was the Roman Empire? Well, by some measures: not very. As the Roman emperors sought...

Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 4 Comments • 20 hours ago

In 1975, researchers at Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one note had been...

When does US news ignore a terror plot? When the target is called Islamberg

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 4 Comments • 2 days ago

(I'm having a lot of trouble embedding the Vimeo video.You'll find it here.) Situated 130 miles north of New York City on the Pennsylvania border, the town was formed in the early 1980s by...

Researchers interpret Cherokee inscriptions in Alabama cave

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 19 Comments • 3 days ago

For the first time, a team of scholars and archaeologists has recorded and interpreted Cherokee inscriptions in Manitou Cave, Alabama. (Spirit Cave). These inscriptions reveal evidence of secluded...

The Deadliest Tornado in U.S. History

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 3 days ago

Overturned trains. Timber found miles away from where it had been stored. Trees felled. Fires and close calls. A letter that flew almost 100 miles. On a normal day in the Midwest in 1925, any one...

Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people

Via: bob-nelson • History & Sociology • 42 Comments • 5 days ago

I was leaving a corporate office building after a full day of leading workshops on how to talk about race thoughtfully and deliberately. The audience for each session had been similar to the...

Legend of the Singing River

Via: ender • History & Sociology • 14 Comments • 2 weeks ago

Legend of the Singing River by Lorin ThompsonPascagoula, Mississippi Post OfficeUsed with the permission of the United States Postal Service®. LORIN THOMPSON WAS BORN IN...

Nobody knew who this USAF academy janitor was until the President came to see him

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 9 Comments • 3 weeks ago

William Crawford poses with his statue in Pueblo, Colorado -just an hour away from the USAF Academy. Growing up, many of us were told not to judge people we didn’t know due to the fact...

How the Three Mile Island Accident Was Made Even Worse By a Chaotic Response

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 1 Comments • 3 weeks ago

For tellers at a Shrewsbury, Pennsylvania bank, the final days of March 1979 should have felt like business as usual. Instead, they were sheer chaos: customers piled up, trying to withdraw money...

The reason Army helicopters are named after native tribes will make you smile - Navy to name a new class of ships after the Navajo Nation

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 39 Comments • 3 weeks ago

Dec. 03, 2017 08:02PM EST The reason Army helicopters are named after native tribes will make you smile The Army's helicopters have a number of names you recognize immediately:...

How the Vietnam War Ratcheted Up Under 5 U.S. Presidents

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 21 Comments • 4 weeks ago

At the end of World War II, the United States was broadly popular in Vietnam for having repelled the Japanese occupiers. Even Ho Chi Minh, the nationalist and communist revolutionary, started off...

WWII aircraft carrier USS Wasp found in Coral Sea

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 5 Comments • one month ago

The wreck of another historic WWII aircraft carrier has been found by the expedition crew aboard research vessel (R/V) Petrel who discovered wreckage of USS Wasp (CV 7) on January 14. The ship...

The Bible and Christianity were used to justify African slavery

By: john-russell • History & Sociology • 435 Comments • one month ago

Shall we go to the horses mouth? George Mc Duffie was the sitting governor of South Carolina when he wrote this message to the state legislature in 1835. (excerpts) For the institution of...

The Cuban Missile Crisis Myth You Probably Believe

Via: vic-eldred • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • one month ago

Several months after the publication of Averting ‘The Final Failure’: John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings (Stanford University Press, 2003), my narrative history of the...

K-9 Veterans Day, March 13th...The Dogs of War.

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 20 Comments • one month ago

Today is K-9 Veterans day. A day to honor the dogs of war used by the US Military. They are on the front lines facing the same dangers as our troops. They protect/guard/search and as always, they...

Stalingrad: For 59 Days 30 Soviet Soldiers Were Under Siege In Pavlov’s House, They Never Surrendered

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 13 Comments • 2 months ago

For six months one of the bloodiest battle is history took place in Russia. Stalingrad, the name alone conjures up sacrifice, courage and the never quit of the Russian army. Millions died in this...

Night Witches: The Female Fighter Pilots of World War II

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 36 Comments • 2 months ago

Members of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment decorated their planes with flowers ... and dropped 23,000 tons of bombs. MEGAN GARBER JUL 15, 2013 TASS / GETTYIt was the spring of 1943, at the...

Remembering the Alamo Scouts - Secret Warriors of World War II

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 26 Comments • 2 months ago

By now, most of the world knows what the U.S. Navy SEAL unit can do. The recent covert operation that went down in Abbottabad, Pakistan—Team 6 swooping down on a compound in four stealth...

Katherine Johnson: The Girl Who Loved to Count

Via: jasper2529 • History & Sociology • 22 Comments • 2 months ago

“I counted everything. I counted the steps to the road, the steps up to church, the number of dishes and silverware I washed … anything that could be counted, I did.” So said Katherine Johnson,...

The Tin Can Sailors Of Taffy 3 - The Battle Of Samar - The Epic Naval Battle Of WWII

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 36 Comments • 2 months ago

This is a repost of an article from 4 years ago. Naval experts call it the greatest mismatch in U.S. Naval history. The small fleet of Taffy 3 made up of destroyers, destroyer escorts and baby...

He took a DNA test in search of his birth father — and found a daughter instead

Via: perrie-halpern • History & Sociology • 19 Comments • 2 months ago

By Elizabeth Chuck and Shako Liu IRVINE, Calif. — Ted Wood, a Sacramento, California, attorney, signed up for Ancestry in 2013, hoping to find his father. Wood, 50, had met his birth mother in...

Back in Omar's district, police deal with gangs, relations with tight-lipped Somali community

Via: vic-eldred • History & Sociology • 2 Comments • 2 months ago

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - In the dead of the cold, late night on Tuesday, a young Somali man was shot in the hip. Someone took him to the local trauma center, left him there, and drove off. The man...

There Were American Nazi Summer Camps Across the US in the 1930s

Via: krishna • History & Sociology • 11 Comments • 2 months ago

During the latter half of the 1930s, a surprising number of Nazi-themed summer camps sprouted across the United States. Organized locally and without the support of Germany, these summer outings...

The Lawless Border With Canada Was Once America’s Main Security Concern

Via: kavika • History & Sociology • 30 Comments • 2 months ago

Near the westernmost point of the border between the United States and Canada, the Peace Arch straddles the world’s longest undefended international boundary. The inscription atop the monument...