The inauguration of former Woodland Hills resident Ronald Reagan - and the release of the Iran hostages the same day - heralded a bright start to the 1980s. The local celebrations continued through with the championships for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Lakers and the successful landing of the first space shuttle at nearby Edwards Air Force Base.
More than two decades after he left office, the 40th president, whose 525 electoral votes in 1984 are an all-time record, is a hot topic for historians, who debate his place among the top chief executives of all time, and for lawmakers, who still spar over who best lays claim to his legacy. There is a growing sense that we need to reckon with Reagan, reckon with his legacy to understand the broad political culture over the past three decades," said Matthew Dallek, a historian who has written about Reagan's 1966 campaign for California governor. "His presidency and the movement he led and his ideas really matter.
For almost half a century, Alfred D Chandler Jr has enjoyed an enviable reputation as the most influential business historian in the world. That Chandler's progressive lineage has thus far gone largely unnoticed is perhaps unsurprising. Chandler had little interest in historiography and never identified himself as a progressive. Chandler's progressivism shone forth in his abiding faith in education, democracy, and planning. Like the great progressive leader Theodore Roosevelt, whom Chandler very much admired and whose personal correspondence he helped to edit, Chandler believed that giant corporations could, and should, be obliged to contribute to the common good. Chandler shared his progressive forbears' confidence in stage models of economic development, and, in marked contrast to the...
WASHINGTON - If Mark Twain were alive today, would he tweet, "OMG, reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated, LOL"? When Twain did read his premature obituary, he sent a letter assuring friends the report was overblown.
A textbook distributed to Virginia fourth-graders says that thousands of African Americans fought for the South during the Civil War - a claim rejected by most historians but often made by groups seeking to play down slavery's role as a cause of the conflict. The passage appears in "Our Virginia: Past and Present," which was distributed in the state's public elementary schools for the first time last month. The author, Joy Masoff, who is not a trained historian but who has written several books, said she found the information about black Confederate soldiers primarily through Internet research, which turned up work by members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
A nearly 200-year-old missing-person case has been solved by the Niagara County historian's office. Historian Catherine L. Emerson told the County Legislature this week that she and her staff have traced the post-War of 1812 whereabouts of Betsy Doyle, a local heroine of the war.
After the missile crisis "resolution," Castro's "defiance" of the United States took the form of the U.S. Coast Guard's and British Navy's (when some intrepid exiled freedom-fighters moved their operation to the Bahamas) shielding him from exile attacks. Simply open The Black Book of Communism, written by French scholars and published in English by Harvard University Press, neither an outpost of the vast right-wing conspiracy or of Miami maniacs.
OTISFIELD - The Otisfield Historical Society will hold a special program Nov. 3 to look at the unsung historians who have recorded the town's past. Jean Hankins of the society will present "Holden to Spurr to Hankins: The Historians of Otisfield." The program will follow a short business meeting at the Otsifield Town Hall beginning at 7 p.m.
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