History Buzz April 16, 2012: Darlene Clark Hine: First Lady Michelle Obama, Paradox, African American Studies Professor & Historian Says

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Darlene Clark Hine: First Lady Michelle Obama, paradox, African American Studies Professor & Historian Says Source: WaPo, 4-16-12 President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive to welcome Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha Cameron to the White House prior to a [...]

History Buzz February 13, 2012: John Covach: Rock, Pop Historian on the Death of Whitney Houston

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Rock, Pop Historian John Covach on the Death of Whitney Houston Source: University of Rochester, 2-13-12 University of Rochester Music Historian John Covach describes Whitney Houston as “a trailblazer and a song stylist, much in the tradition of Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley or [...]

History Quotes October 11, 2011: Gary Gerstle: Historian Occupy Wall Street movement right on time in new Gilded Age

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP HISTORY QUOTES Historian: Occupy Wall Street movement right on time in new Gilded Age Source: Vanderbilt News, 10-11-11 The Occupy Wall Street movement could offer a similar opportunity to left-wing politicians as the Tea Party movement did to the right, says a Vanderbilt University historian. [...]

Larry Schweikart: Founders & Debt — Would Want ‘Our Fiscal House in Order’

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: NewsMax, 7-3-11 If America’s Founding Fathers were clear on anything, it was that deficits could not be tolerated, says best-selling author and political historian Larry Schweikart. So what would the founders say about the current economy and crushing U.S. debt? “The founders were very clear on issues of debt,” [...]

Brendan McConville: Sarah Palin may have been right in verbal gaffe, but historian says she was just “lucky”

HISTORY BUZZ: HISTORY NEWS RECAP Source: Boston Herald, 6-6-11 Sarah Palin yesterday insisted her claim at the Old North Church last week that Paul Revere “warned the British” during his famed 1775 ride — remarks that Democrats and the media roundly ridiculed — is actually historically accurate. And local historians are backing her up…. Boston [...]

Adam Rothman: Historian: Thomas Jefferson supported ‘government run health care’

Source: WaPo, 1-21-11 Rick Ungar’s post argues that John Adams supported a 1798 measure similar to health reform’s individual mandate…. It turns out Thomas Jefferson also supported the same measure, meaning it had more support than you might have thought among the founders. Jefferson, of course, is the founder most often cited by the Obamacare-despising [...]