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Crowd photo at the 2017 Women's March in Washington DC

The Way We Never Were (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 1)

… the truth of the women's bloc, we take you back--all the way back to the American Revolution--and learn that women in America have never been completely united.  … The Way We Never Were (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 1) … Episode 1: The Way We Never Were: Sarah Paxton The concept of the women's …
Close-up of the mural commemorating works of A.J. Muste on the War Resisters League Building in New York, New York.

"There Is No Way to Peace, Peace Is the Way": A.J. Muste and American Radical Pacifism

Review of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century, by Leilah Danielson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
… the story of a Calvinist intellectual preacher who transformed into a revolutionary labor leader, before finally … finished the book. Muste was a busy man, and there was always a world that needed redeeming. When he died ten years … nonconformist left. Historian Leilah Danielson attempts to complete the work that Muste did not. It is most useful to …
Black Friday shoppers in the morning at Walmart store in Durham, North Carolina.

Is Retailing’s Death Star Vulnerable After All?

… Public outrage could reach a point where shoppers turn away from Wal-Mart and give their business to retailers … but say they must shop there because it stretches their budgets. Notice how, in contrast, consumers rave about Target … a place where people would want to work — and love to visit again. Bob Batchelor is the author of "The 1900s" …
Photo of a healthcare worker holding an elderly person's hand.

Ducking Out on Retiree Benefits

… employee pensions. It’s time to ask: whose legacy is it, anyway? General Motors owes $89 billion in health insurance and … on a mix of public and private pensions. Like it or not, company pensions are part of public policy. This struggle … workers actually pay more for their retirement plans and get less retirement security than twenty years ago. Private …
Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

… was in a part an academic exercise, it was also an effort to reclaim pieces of a family’s experience that was … My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma and Indigenous Ways of Knowing brought to you by the College of Arts and … narratives. It is based on her dissertation. So let's get to know Melissa Beard Jacob today. Her pronouns are she …
2nd Battalion, 7th Marines packing up gear to withdraw from Al-Taqaddum Air Base, 24 March 2020.

Vietnam and Iraq: The Benefits of Getting Out

… Vietnam analogy is not so much the difficulty of drawing comparisons between two different situations. The problem is … of a changing world scene as long as the war rages. Getting out of Iraq will be emotionally wrenching. President … 35 years ago in Vietnam, withdrawal from Iraq is the only way to rescue American power and set our foreign policy on a …
Palestine & Israel flags

Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies Block the Way to Peace

… As any viewer of television news knows, those who comment on the Arab-Israeli crisis offer many different explanations for the current outbreaks of violence. Rarely mentioned, … in the West Bank. Jewish settlers travel regularly over highways connecting their communities, and soldiers in the …
Hurricane Sandy Rockaway

Hurricane Sandy Should Inspire New Ways of Building and Living on the Seashore

… and restoring, wholly ignoring the fact that coasts have always been the most changeable of all American landscapes. As … owners and land developers, and in the process have become increasingly vulnerable. They have become the hard edge … has been erased. Shores have become our chosen places of forgetting. They are where we go to turn our backs on the past, …
The floor seal of the Central Intelligence Agency

Getting Others to Fight Our Wars

… United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … but they didn’t begin with him. In 1954 the CIA stitched together a mercenary force that toppled Guatemala’s leftist … of the invaders, Kennedy left the exiles to their fate, always a peril in proxy wars. And then there was Vietnam! We …
Hessian troops surrendering to General George Washington after the Battle of Trenton.

The Return of the Mercenary

… contingent in Iraq, after the (official) U.S. military force. Mercenaries are being hired by governments for a … phenomenon. This is why Congress should examine the recommendations made in a 2002 British government Green Paper … The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the History News Service. …
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Oval Office in 2009.

Don’t Get Tough, Barack

… this is not the NBA. Or the NFL. This is politics, where getting tough and acting tough matters not because it has to … only does one never show weakness, but one never talks to foreign potentates you don’t like unless you know from the … to the point of foolishness. Reagan did have new ideas, new ways of thinking about government. You were right to remind …
Marker: "90 Miles to Cuba. Southernmost Point, Continental USA. Key West, FL"

Rethinking Cuba Libre

… terms with the United States though it's only 90 miles away from the U.S.'s southernmost point. But U.S. - Cuba relations could be in for a dramatic change since President Obama's mid-December … could be in for a real change.   Patrick Potyondy  Always in the news these days, Pope Francis apparently played …
President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.

How to Intervene and Get Out

… syndrome,” the fear of sending U.S. youth into harm’s way. Opponents answer that the conflict is a “quagmire” … the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … intervention was that Johnson intervened without first getting the blessing of the Organization of American States …
Depiction of General Scott capturing Mexico City during the Mexican-American War.

Getting Away from the “Quagmire” Cliché

… analogies about Iraq. They had better search further. While comparisons of Iraq with Vietnam may stir Howard Dean’s … create many of the problems America now faces. Fear of getting bogged down led Americans to flee Beirut in the … analogy to the current situation we have to look all the way back to a war that warrants only a paragraph or two in …
Wedding rings.

Getting Government Out of Marriage, and Vice Versa

… hallowed. Those claiming to defend traditional marriage forget what those traditions were. One revered form of marriage … ruling so that all Jews could go back to biblical ways. The Ten Commandments are mute about gay marriage. Males in a … History News Service … Getting Government Out of Marriage, and Vice Versa …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into police brutality, the … has been withdrawn, protests seem certain to continue. For many Hong Kongers, the proposed legislation was merely the latest attempt by Beijing to undermine the unique "one …
Barack Obama in 2008

How Eloquence Has Paved the Way to the White House

… They're piling on Barack Obama for being all word, no act. Yet that's wrong on the facts, … into the White House primarily because they were effective communicators. In recent weeks the public has heard a good … Jimmy Carter, Reagan spoke in a general but memorable way about the need for a new leader to deal America's with …
WE.177A was an air-launched boosted fission weapon deployed by the UK

The Two Sides of the Nuclear Coin

… he and his fellow Republicans deserve much of the blame for their increase. Ever since the advent of the Bush … Justifying war with Iraq, the administration hammered away at that nation’s alleged possession of weapons of mass … The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a landmark measure negotiated …
Booker T. Washington

Picturing Black History

… is a collaborative project between Getty Images and Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in … Participants: Bob Ahern | Director of Archive Photography for Getty Images Dawn Chitty, (Ed.D.) | Director of Education at … been underrepresented. And we can do this in a number of ways. First, we can revisit our own analog collections. Just …
the U.S. Constitution, COM Library, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Why Getting Rid of the Filibuster Is Still a Good Idea

… are making a major mistake by opposing filibuster reform. By opposing the proposal of Sen. Bill Frist, the … anti-democratic, inefficient, and a symbol of legislative incompetence. Liberals in the earlier post-World War II period … 1945-2000" (2004), is a writer for the History News Service. …
Alice Conklin's recent In the Museum of the Man: Race, Anthropology, and Empire in France, 1850-1950 Book Cover.

3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians

… the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century  (Oxford University Press, 2014). Diane King published  … Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq  (Rutgers University Press, 2014). Daniel … 3/26/14: The Latest Books from OSU Historians …
Bust of Abraham Lincoln.

Getting Wrong with Lincoln

… actor recently capped a bizarre speech to Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) with a dramatic quotation from … our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … his readers that repeated the “money power” lines verbatim. Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter pointed out that Beatty’s …
Palais de Beaulieu

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… “Therefore go, and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of … Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I [Jesus] have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19 NIV). This Great Commission found at the end of the first gospel of the New … Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin …