Read more colonialism stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3980/colonialism.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 19:08:42 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/69147/new-york-age-400-looks-back-to-holland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagToday is an unhappy date in New York, but tomorrow is a much more joyous anniversary—on Sept. 12, 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name, leading to the founding of New Amsterdam. The Dutch royal family will visit for the anniversary, and two historical...http://www.newser.com/story/69147/new-york-age-400-looks-back-to-holland.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 11 Sep 2009 10:16:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63540/founding-fathers-that-time-forgot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence, but we only remember a few of the Founding Fathers. Mental Floss shines a light on a few of the lesser-knowns: George Read : the only statesman to oppose the Declaration of Independence. Admitted to the Philadelphia Bar at age 19, Read thought Americans...http://www.newser.com/story/63540/founding-fathers-that-time-forgot.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 04 Jul 2009 16:59:58 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62102/parthenon-gets-the-museum-it-deserves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Parthenon has been called the one “absolutely right” building on the planet, and it now has a fitting memorial, Christopher Hitchens writes in Vanity Fair . Hitchens is among the first to visit the new Acropolis Museum in Athens, and it does not disappoint. Artifacts, expert reproductions, and a stunning...http://www.newser.com/story/62102/parthenon-gets-the-museum-it-deserves.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Jun 2009 13:52:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62079/sarko-jeered-at-african-leaders-funeral.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCrowds in the African nation of Gabon booed Nicolas Sarkozy at the funeral of the country's long-serving strongman president, Omar Bongo. Dozens of onlookers shouted "We don't want you, leave!" at the French leader and his predecessor, Jacques Chirac. France ruled Gabon in the colonial era and kept close ties...http://www.newser.com/story/62079/sarko-jeered-at-african-leaders-funeral.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 17 Jun 2009 5:39:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61499/amid-thaw-gadhafi-visits-italy-for-1st-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagToday marks the start of Moammar Gadhafi’s first visit to Italy since he took over Libya in 1969—and the trip “promises to be as colorful as it is historic,” notes Richard Owen in the Times of London. That’s thanks in part to his 300-member entourage and his plan to...http://www.newser.com/story/61499/amid-thaw-gadhafi-visits-italy-for-1st-time.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 10 Jun 2009 13:15:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56643/hugos-gift-keeps-on-selling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHugo Chavez has done for a book on the exploitation of Latin America what Bo did for Portuguese water dogs, the BBC reports. Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent has gone from 54,295th to second on Amazon’s sales charts since...http://www.newser.com/story/56643/hugos-gift-keeps-on-selling.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 20 Apr 2009 9:24:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/56551/chavez-gives-obama-book-on-colonial-oppression.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave President Obama a Spanish-language book today about the historical ravages visited on Latin America by colonial powers, Politico reports. The English title of the 1971 book by Eduardo Galeano is The Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. The...http://www.newser.com/story/56551/chavez-gives-obama-book-on-colonial-oppression.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 18 Apr 2009 9:51:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/53398/tibets-long-history-of-isolation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIsolation has long defined Tibet and fueled the region's exotic history, Edward Wong writes in the New York Times . While China's recent clampdown is purely political—this is the 50th anniversary of an attempted uprising—natural remoteness and anti-imperialist struggles have also sealed its borders. “A large element of Tibet’s...http://www.newser.com/story/53398/tibets-long-history-of-isolation.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 15 Mar 2009 16:08:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/44261/brits-tortured-obama-patriarch-in-kenya-revolt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBritish jailers tortured Barack Obama's grandfather during the struggle for Kenyan independence, his family tells the Times of London. Hussein Onyango Obama, who worked as a cook for a British army officer, was arrested in 1949, aged 56, and imprisoned for two years. There he was subjected to daily whippings...http://www.newser.com/story/44261/brits-tortured-obama-patriarch-in-kenya-revolt.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Dec 2008 9:09:01 CST