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Destruction in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Another Pearl Harbor? Not by a Longshot
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.
Not Only Action but Accountability
A view of the World Trade Center in New York City
Responding to Terror: No Good Choices
A wood engraving of President Woodrow Wilson from 1918.
The Osama bin Laden of 1916
President George W. Bush talking on the phone the day of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
War May Raise Serious Issues at Home
The Chrysler Building in New York City.
The “Unimaginable” Has, in Fact, Often Been Imagined
A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.
Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.
Terrorism: A New Kind of War?
19th century engraving showing Wall Street from the corner of Broad Street.
The First Wall Street Bomb
USS ARIZONA sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
The 1942 Internments and Today’s Security Crisis
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006.
Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Old man sitting alone in a park.
Social Security Reform for All
FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.
A New Atlantic Charter?
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.
Marking a Tragic Anniversary
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.
Conservation — An American, and Republican, Tradition
Admiral William D. Leahy in 1944.
Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent
A judge's gavel resting in front of legal books.
Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges
Mount Holyoke College
Historical Truth and Personal Truths
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.
Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth
Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).
Sowing Nuclear Seeds of Division
Cazy Freewill Baptist Church in West Virginia, USA.
Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What Whey Wish For
US president Bill Clinton and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997
The Next Cold War?
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.
An Energy Plan for You!