Tag: History

FILE - In this July 13, 2013 file photo, abortion rights advocates, left, protest in the State Capitol as anti-abortion rights supporters pass them in Austin, Texas.

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The dumbest pro-abortion argument

Daniel Payne · May 16, 2019 9:39 pm

Rep. Ilhan Omar listens as Office of Management and Budget acting Director Russell Vought testifies before the House Budget Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2019, during a hearing on the fiscal 2020 budget.

Ilhan Omar: Attempts to ‘distort and vilify’ our message are attempts to silence Muslims

Julio Rosas · May 15, 2019 3:33 am

Rep. Rashida Tlaib is pictured.

Israeli historians hit back at Rashida Tlaib: ‘Ignorant of the history or is a deliberate liar’

John Gage · May 14, 2019 5:04 pm

Sen. John F. Kennedy, center, D-Mass., and his brothers Edward Kennedy, left, a student at the University of Virginia, and Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel to the Senate Rackets Committee, attend the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, D.C., on March 15, 1958.

The curse of the ‘Kennedyesque’

Noemie Emery · May 14, 2019 4:00 am

This is the central programming services division of Voice of America radio in New York, seen Feb. 27, 1953. These men and women write news, commentaries and dramatic programs for VOA.

Collusion: How the State Department tried to save Voice of America from Soviet influence in WWII

Ted Lipien · May 12, 2019 4:00 am

Railroad officials and employees celebrate the completion of the first railroad transcontinental link in Prementory, Utah on May 10, 1869. The Union Pacific's Locomotive No. 119, right, and Central Pacific's Jupiter edged forward over the golden spike that marked the joining of the nation by rail.

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150 years ago, the day America started a grand party — too soon

J. Mark Powell · May 10, 2019 4:05 am

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Folk songs give life to the past — in ‘Game of Thrones’ and real life

Erin Dunne · May 10, 2019 1:59 am

The world famous landmark and UNESCO World Heritage Site, Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.

Florida man hands over piece of Stonehenge he stole in 1958

Caitlin Yilek · May 9, 2019 8:45 pm

The curse of an evil deed

Robert Scott Kellner · May 8, 2019 11:01 pm

This cover image released by Simon & Schuster shows "The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West," by David McCullough.

David McCullough traces western explorers’ travails in ‘The Pioneers’

John Gage · May 7, 2019 2:50 pm

F.W. Hooper, of Jacksonville, Fla., smiles as he holds Hoop Jr., Kentucky Derby winner at Churchill Downs, Louisville, June 9, 1945. Jockey Eddie Arcaro is in the saddle.

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The year there almost wasn’t a Kentucky Derby

J. Mark Powell · May 4, 2019 11:00 am

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is seen in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018.

America’s long and silent wall

Washington Examiner · May 4, 2019 4:00 am