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Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.
Greenland Fantasies

Senator Joe Lieberman
Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.
The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette
Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924
Dick Cheney in 2003.
The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics
The Titanic sailing from Southampton in 1912.
Is History Really Bunk?
Woman reading inside a newsstand in the 1950s.
Journalists and the Bomb
Waiting for a Chinook, by C.M. Russell. Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the Open Range.
Dot-Coms and the Great Cattle Die-Off
Tulsa aftermath. Jun 1, 1921.
In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations
Vicente Fox Quesada
Will Fox be a Mexican Jefferson?
An engraving of Earl Cornwallis's surrender to George Washington during the American Revolution.
Hollywood’s American Revolution
John D. Rockefeller in 1914.
Bill Gates — Another Rockefeller or Another Ford?
President Bill Clinton addressing a high school in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1999.
The Politics of Compassion
Russian peasants in the early 20th century.
Vladimir Putin: Not the Jefferson of Russia
Portrait of Jane Addams
Million Moms March in Noble Company
Exiles carry a poster against the communist government of Cuba, in a demonstration in Miami
Cuba in Focus–Again
Dynamiters' train in Indianapolis.
Of Bill Gates, Casey Jones, and the Search for Heroes
Campaign poster attacking Cleveland's morals.
Morality and Presidential Elections
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963.
Spring Marches on Washington
A U.S. Coast Guard boat approaches a sailboat with over 90 Haitian refugees in 1988. The refugees were later returned to Haiti.
Who is responsible for the Elian Gonzalez case?
George Washington Bridge Flag Retirement Ceremony
Who’s Desecrating the Flag, Anyhow?
University of Notre Dame's administration building.
The Catholic Voter in the Twentieth Century
KKK members displaying the Nazi salute and Holocaust denial signs.
Facing Anti-Semitism and American History
The Epsom Clock Tower in the UK.
How Clocks Helped Conquer the World
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pictured in 2002
Apologizing for History
2013 St. Patrick's Day parade in Wappingers Falls, New York.
The Wearing of the Rainbow
Mural of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.
‘Til All the World’s an Ebenezer
World War II poster of American, British, Chinese, and Russian soldiers shaking hands.
Patrick Buchanan’s Forebears
Seal of New York State.
George W. Bush and Indian Land Claims
The flag of the United Nations
America’s Intervention Predicament
A Jewish menorah, which is used during Hanukkah.
How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas
With its rhetoric of "the 99%" (the people) against "the 1%" (the elite), the international Occupy movement is an example of a (left-wing) populist social movement.
A New Populism in the United States
Ellis Island, New York City.
Hiding Behind Reform
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1964.
The (Character) Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
An image of the castle in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando.
Banning Harry Potter
A gay march in Minneapolis on June 30, 1973, the first in the country with the headline "Gay Pride".
Homosexuality and Prohibition
Radio World's Fair in 1926.
“Black Tuesday” After 70 Years
President Richard Nixon in 1969.
The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle
Image of T2 Atomic Demolition Munition from the 1950s.
The Test-Ban Treaty and the Cold War’s Lessons
Bust of Abraham Lincoln.
Getting Wrong with Lincoln
The Trojan Nuclear Plant in 1973.
The Atomic Age
Crucifixion of Saint Peter by Caravaggio (1600, Cerasi Chapel).
Persecuted Christians?
Rural school children looking at a globe in 1943.
The Debate That Won’t Die
Soldiers in Kosovo
Kosovo: The Lessons of History?
Power lines.
Blackouts: Symptoms of Our Dependence
Gunslingers in the 19th century. This is the Ned Christie posse.
Gun Control and the Old West
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969 with the American flag behind them.
Thirty Years since Apollo 11
Computers utilized by U.S. Navy personnel in 1998.
What the Internet Will Bring Us
Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.
Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech