If we want good citizens, we need good historians, and therefore I think all students should major in history. If they prefer to major in something else, they should double-major in history and something else. And had I known then what I know now, I would have liked to build my ...
Come on. I can't believe Hollywood has the nerve to put this in theaters. I also can't believe how many people find this garbage funny. Other acts of idiocy include breaking into a house, and mistaking urine for champagne. And everyone wonders why this country seems to be falling apart...
(AP) — If not for the coronavirus pandemic, Feng-Feng Yeh might never have learned about a lesser-known chapter of Chinese American history in her hometown of Tucson, Arizona. Yeh was an executive chef in New York City when ...
than in the last six.The circumstances leading to the change in Mr.Covey's course toward me form an epoch in my humble history.You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.On one of the hottest days of the month...
It's a journey through hilarious history, surprising science, fascinating trivia, mind-boggling facts, and captivating stories designed to spark curiosity and ignite a love for learning in young minds. Whether you're a parent looking for an educational yet entertaining podcast for your kids, or ...
“Black life is so important in American politics, culture, and history, that in order to really be conversant [about] those things, you have to know something about [African American Studies] ... [but] it is still treated as an outlier in schools as a ‘specialized’ are...
The term American Dream was first used by James Adams in his book The Epic of America which was written in 1931. He states: The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with o...
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE“The Beast in the Jungle”We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capableof killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER, 1953OPPENHEIMER HAD LONG BEEN HARBORING a vague premonition that something dark and momentous lay in...
PART ONE CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER ONE“He Received Every New Idea as Perfectly Beautiful ”I was an unctuous, repulsively good little boy.ROBERT OPPENHEIMERIN THE FIRST DECADE of the twentieth century, science initiated a second American revolution. A nation on horseback was soon transformed by the ...
by the moral and intellectual fiasco of the “Baruch Plan,” Oppenheimer and Lilienthal continued to work together. On October 23, the FBI overheard the two men discussing who should be named to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), which had been created by the August 1 passage of the ...