New History

What always interests me about history, is that decades after an event has occurred even more information about it keeps coming up in the news. Even if professors and researchers claim that there is no more information to be found about something, which might be hardly the case, there always seems to be something in the media that could change history.

In class, through our 80 minute presentations or PERILOUS TIMES project, we learned from a great group that presented how civil liberties were abridged during the Cold War. They explained to us how the war began, ended, etc... and in previous years we had learned many details about the Cold War and all the information behind it. So we thought. 

Recently in an article from CNN, The world now learns some uncovered secrets, or details about the war. For example, "Panic over a soccer field led to the Cuban Missile Crisis", is a bit of info just discovered about the Cold War. It seems that an American jet was doing a fly over of Cuba when he noticed a soccer field. This led to him and the US saying that, ""Cubans play baseball, Russians play soccer." Sparking the US to take action and find out about this Crisis.

This story really shows how we may never know about certain events in history. Or that eventually maybe the truth will come out about events that we would never thought of, like the soccer field.