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AMERICAN HISTORY NEWS

News of the World author Paulette Jiles, 82, passes away

July 30, 2025 11:12 am

Paulette Jiles achieved widespread recognition with her 2016 novel News of the World that was adapted into a feature film starring Tom Hanks as Captain Kidd

The shared history of California & Mexico, why anti-ICE protestors were waving Mexican flags

June 18, 2025 5:45 pm

California was once a part of Mexico. More than 30% of its residents still trace their heritage to Mexico

The history of American liberty – and its hypocrisy

November 28, 2023 6:14 pm

Nineteen of the 75 delegates at the Philadelphia convention which drafted the American Constitution in 1787 owned slaves. The Declaration of Independence said that all men were created equal, but the Constitution only recognised a slave as a fraction of a person.

America’s history just got changed, by 1,000 years

May 16, 2016 6:47 pm

The excavations made at Page-Ladson in Florida pushes back considerably the date of the first migration made to America.

Gun industry thrives during Obama term

October 20, 2012 1:12 am

President Barack Obama has presided over a heyday for the gun industry despite predictions by the National Rifle Association

40 yrs on,Vietnam girl in photo talks of what it means

June 02, 2012 1:30 am

People: ‘I really wanted to escape from that little girl...the picture didn’t let me go,’ says Kim Phuc,now 49

Reluctantly,Europe inches closer to a fiscal union

September 06, 2011 12:48 am

It was a brief lesson from American history that served as a not-so-subtle suggestion for contemporary Europe.

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