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President Clinton and President-Elect Bush in December 2000.

Leadership and the New Bush Administration

… dimples, chads and absentee ballots has raised the ire of diehard partisans who will try to weaken the president by … otherwise, is a dynamic process that revolves around three complex elements — the leader, the followers and the … history. Their forecasts, based on limited knowledge of future events, are hardly reliable. Leadership is a dynamic …
The military cemetery for U.S. personnel killed during World War II in Nettuno, Italy.

A Day for Remembering — and Accepting Responsibility

… picnics, parades, and softball games to remember those who died fighting our country’s wars. It’s rarely a day for … not incidentally, killed or wounded over 27,000 American soldiers. Apologizing to those soldiers can’t undo the damage … ago, on May 30, 1945, by Lt. Gen. Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., commander of the Allied Fifth Army in Italy. Truscott was …
Native woman with her back to the camera

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

… Ohio State Newark Earthworks Center, American Indian Studies, and the Department of History. … Indigenous Arts and Humanities grant and American Indian Studies at The Ohio State University. My name is Lucy Murphy. … but the collective identities of their community and their future children and grandchildren. It is through this …
Scene in Ukraine

Ukraine, In a Nutshell

Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
… the reader.   The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests.  December 2013. As current news broadcasts and websites talk of the plight of today’s Crimean Tartars, many … relationships that show who is/was doing what and why.  In future editions of this necessary book, this reviewer looks …
President LBJ's "Midnight Address" on the 2nd Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964.

Remember the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

… colonialists in their war against Ho’s Vietminh, he had become a bitter U.S. enemy. Over the next decade, Ho … justify offensive military action as the means to prevent future aggression. He seized on a murky series of clashes in … were in Vietnam. By 1973, more than 58,000 of them had died there. Congress later recognized the mistake of the …
A promotional still from the 1951 Broadway production of The King and I

Top Ten Origins: Historical Musicals

… together a succession of musical numbers to entertain the audience. Narrative took a backseat to spectacle. Although … when his administration founded a public school to train future actors, artists, and musicians in 1936 – today the … still happen, the decline of the movie musical has coincided with a rise in theatrical productions that were …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… casualties, though many think up to six times more have died. Blockades mean millions face starvation. And the … wined and dined for about six months to talk about Yemen's future. But the UN didn't really understand what the … Rhodes. Song and band information can be found on our website. You can find our podcasts and more on our website, …
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.

Marking a Tragic Anniversary

… put it not long ago, “The era of big government” has ended. Future generations will no doubt credit these developments … legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater … and generous benefits won by unionized workers. It is no coincidence that as the labor movement’s strength has …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny.  On Sunday, September … Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … silver become too heavy, and something that embodies more value in less volume is needed.  This need is best …
A view of New York City behind Secretary Gale Norton in a lower Manhattan office space in 2006.

Downsizing Becomes Normal

… between big business and employees that promised secure futures in return for loyal service. Recent cuts have stung … his father, also an Edison employee, counseled him that the company would provide a secure life. Myers’ forced … cuts with the headline: “AT&T Lays Out Bold Plan for Its Future.” For most of the twentieth century, American firms …
Custis Lee (1832–1913) on horseback in front of the Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond, Virginia on June 3, 1907, reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade.

Trent Lott and the Collapse of Southern Mythology

… the United States. A Richmond journalist, Edward Pollard, coined the term “The Lost Cause” in 1866, and he soon used … be raised from the dead by invoking the memory of fallen soldiers. But the civil-rights movement of the mid-20th century … upon the present without holding implications for the future. Robert E. Bonner is the author of "The Soldier's …
Photo of a healthcare worker holding an elderly person's hand.

Ducking Out on Retiree Benefits

… in health insurance and pension benefits to current and future retirees. The bankruptcy of its supplier Delphi adds … on a mix of public and private pensions. Like it or not, company pensions are part of public policy. This struggle … action. Delphi’s bankruptcy and the increasingly uncertain future of GM signal that pensions have become expendable. As …
William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock pose behind a model of the starship Enterprise.

Star Trek

… sixth series will debut in 2017) hundreds of novels and comic books, and countless toys, games, uniforms and other … remained dominated by variety shows, fluffy situation comedies, spy and police thrillers, and ubiquitous westerns. … by clothing the issues of the day in the costuming of the future. Flag of the United Federation of Planets. The Cold …
ELAS Guerrillas, 1943

The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949

… If eight percent of the population of seven million had died or been killed during WWII , the Greek civil war (GCW) … coups d’état and dozens of governments. Although Greek communists had been a serious threat to all Greece’s … diametrically opposed programs for the rehabilitation and future of their war-devastated country. The GCW was also an …
Immigrant Rights Protest by Betty Tsang, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers

… of well-publicized workplace raids to terrorize immigrant communities. Although immigrants bear the brunt of these … rights. The recent increase in worksite raids comes, not coincidentally, at a moment when, despite a growing economy, … of history and director of Latin American and Ethnic Studies at Lewis & Clark College. …
A drawing by Italian artist Achille Beltrame imagines Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination by Gavrilo Princip

The Assassin’s Shadow: The Beginning of World War I and the Legacy of Gavrilo Princip

On June 28, 1914, one event changed the world.
… was promptly arrested and imprisoned, where he would die of tuberculosis in 1918. But while the assassin’s fate … lives and change the face of the planet for generations to come. Gavrilo Princip Legend tells that shortly before his … a variety of events geared towards promoting peace in the future, including art exhibitions and unveilings, sporting …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… Boxer Rebellion in China targeted Westerners, 2,500 U.S. soldiers quickly traversed the South China Sea to help suppress … The timeline of American ambition in the western Pacific coincided roughly with that of Japan, perhaps making a fight … as the key to wealth, prestige, and regional stability. The future of the Philippines will be tied closely to …
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century

Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth

… this new western sailing route was vital to Spain’s future as an international power. In 1494, after Christopher Columbus returned from the West Indies, the Spanish and Portuguese governments signed a deal … in, some of them to work off debts. Magellan’s second-in-command was the Spanish overseer and accountant, Juan de …
President George W. Bush with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2006.

Is Iraq Vietnam?

… South Vietnam’s governments also had serious problems. The Diem regime (1954-63) wanted to defeat or at least contain the Viet Cong but could not rally non-Communist South Vietnamese behind it, prompting the United … to happen. (Similarly, some Americans in 1963 thought that Diem could continue in office if he fired his brother Nhu – …
Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE.

The Justinianic Plague

… reportedly a casualty of the disease, although he did not die from it. Mosaics from the apse in the Basilica of San … Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … that Justinian’s government had to direct the removal of bodies from the city and their mass burial outside the walls. …
Henry Ford with a Model T in 1921.

What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa

… Now that Ford Motor Company has announced its “Way Forward” restructuring plan, does the auto maker have a real future? Without doubt. Can its current chairman and CEO, … pictures and words in ads was certainly a risk. When Henry died in 1947, his once heroic reputation had sunk so low — …