Local News: Seattle, WA 

 | 

Sign Up

 | 

Sign In

History in the News Editors

News Widget

Display the History in the News news headlines on your website.

Get the Topix Headlines Widget

Share & bookmark

RSS icon mobile icon

History in the News

History in the News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

10 min ago | KIII

Second-Term Polls: How Do Obama and Clinton Compare?

President Barack Obama is facing a political situation not altogether unlike what the last Democrat in the White House, Bill Clinton, experienced during his second term.

Comment?

Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton

1 hr ago | The Land of the Free

Views on the News - 5/4/2013

President Obama's charm offensive has been a dismal failure , but of course, he didn't really try all that hard.

Comment?

Related Topix: George Bush, Bill Clinton, Opinion

5 hrs ago | Politico

Clintons to stay out of N.Y.C. race

Bill and Hillary Clinton are making clear they are staying out of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, just as the race is about to be roiled by the candidacy of their close aide Huma Abedin's husband, Anthony Weiner.

Comment?

Related Topix: US Politics, Hillary Clinton, US News, US Senate, Democrat, US House of Representatives, Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton

Mon May 20, 2013

Hernando Today

IRS scandal anther reason why we need fair tax

In the idealistic constitutional fantasies of those who harbor high hopes and short memories, the accumulating effect of the scandals piling up at the White House will result in the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States.

Comment?

Related Topix: Tax, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton

Real Clear Politics

Richard Milhous Obama

He's compared himself to Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, evoked nostalgia for John F. Kennedy, sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, praised George W. Bush, and enlisted the assistance of Bill Clinton in his 2012 re-election effort, but as his second term stumbles along, the president with whom Barack Obama finds himself being compared is Richard ... (more)

Comment?

Related Topix: Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Lincoln, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama

Inside Colombia

Bill Clinton visits Colombia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Former U.S. President Clinton visited Colombia last week, meeting with President Juan Manuel Santos and visiting Bogota, where Mayor Gustavo Petro showed him around the city in an electric taxi.

Comment?

Related Topix: Colombia Travel, Travel, Bill Clinton

OregonLive.com

Pickett's Charge battle flags mark Gettysburg exhibit

The Confederate flag of the 7th Virginia Infantry Army of Northern Virginia Obverse captured at the Battle of Gettysburg, Pa., in July 1863 by the 82nd New York Infantry.

Comment?

Related Topix: Gettysburg, PA, Travel

Anchorage Daily News

Doyle McManus: The second-term scandal plague

What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity.

Comment?

Related Topix: Bill Clinton, George Bush, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Tax

The Wichita Eagle

Opinion Line Extra

Come on, Eagle – let's get our headline facts straight. Obama did not fire the IRS chief.

Comment?

Related Topix: Bill Clinton, Opinion, Entertainment

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Is There Really A Second-Term Curse?

President Bill Clinton walks to the White House Rose Garden to deliver a statement on the impeachment inquiry on Dec.

Comment?

Related Topix: US News, Bill Clinton, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, Lyndon Johnson, Iowa

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Don't get giddy with Obama scandal fever

Those are the urgent questions Republican leaders face. Their answers depend on a third question: What do they hope to accomplish? It would be so easy to succumb to glee.

Comment?

Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Tax, Hillary Clinton, Opinion

Sun May 19, 2013

Ventura County Star

Paulson: To a president losing my trust

Mr. President, every month since you've been in office, I've sent you a personal letter, as I have with every president since Bill Clinton.

Comment?

Related Topix: Bill Clinton

Free Republic

Paula Begala admits Tea Party was right about fear of big government

Wow, when you have Forehead, agreeing with the Tea Party, then you know the IRS scandal is a very serious problem for big government-loving, liberals.

Comment?

Related Topix: Tea Party, US News, Bill Clinton

Examiner.com

The Garden State's favorite president

A few weeks ago, a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll was taken to gauge whom New Jerseyans view as their favorite president.

Comment?

Related Topix: New Jersey, Monmouth University, Asbury Park, NJ, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

Anorak

Test Your Patriotism: how artists tested their value to the US in 1963

TEST Your Patriotism with the Intelligence Centre Inc., New York, and stand a chance to win a scholarship worth $495! We'd avoid Nikita Khrushchev, who looks the easier draw due to lack of hair and rounded throat.

Comment?

Sat May 18, 2013

Star Tribune

Review: 'Guns at Last Light,' by Rick Atkinson

The third book of Rick Atkinson's World War II trilogy tells the stories of the generals and the GIs in the Allied armies' final sweep across Western Europe.

Comment?

Related Topix: Entertainment

The Morning Call

Saving soldiers' lives: Tour, exhibit and festival honor Gettysburg work of Daughters of Charity

Daughters of Charity, a nursing order, tended to men wounded at Battle of Gettysburg.

2 comments

Related Topix: Gettysburg, PA, Medicine, Nursing, Travel

Arkansas Times

Friday finish - An oldie but goodie for legislature? A rebuttal for Tom Cotton

The state took control of the district yesterday because of fiscal woes. Turner has a long resume of school work, including in the fiscal distress unit of the state department.

Comment?

Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Tom Cotton, Healthcare Law, Law, Bill Clinton, Arkansas, Mark Pryor, US Senate, Democrat

Trend

Georgian President awards order to Bill Clinton

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is on a working visit to the U.S., awarded St.

Comment?

Related Topix: World News, Asia, Georgia, Bill Clinton, Mikheil Saakashvili

The Independent

Battle of the bulge on before-breakfast Berlin-bound jet

Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary.

Comment?

Related Topix: Travel

History in the News Hot Topics