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Dick Cheney in 2003.

The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics

… thus passed into the language to refer to someone with no competence or apparent purpose. It turns out, however, that … qualified to direct foreign policy if the president dies and to continue the basic policies in the next election … Cheney maintains good health. Thus, he has handed the future of the presidential Republican party over to a …

NATO's New Order: The Alliance After the Cold War

… and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … and the United States) broke down. Disagreements over the future of Germany, the growing division of Europe, and … the Western alliance. Clinton pushed a new partnership embodied in the NATO-Russia Founding Act signed in May 1997, …
Detail from the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

Common Good and Common Evil in American Religion

Review of America’s Religious Wars: The Embattled Heart of Our Public Life, by Kathleen M. Sands (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019)
… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. … to agree on visions, solutions, and resolutions, for the future of national life. Through the three sections of her …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … The Republican Presidential Debates brought in record audiences. The news media’s obsession with Trump is … Media/Journalism/Communications …
Collapsed bridge

America's Infrastructure Challenge

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … get built with the idea of economic development in the future in mind, so the New Deal often was about trying to … big federal involvement in infrastructure would be subsidies for the railroads in the nineteenth century.   Dr. …
Chinese nuclear bomb on display in China.

A Danger Shared by All

… Lyndon Johnson ordered a task force, the Gilpatric Committee (named after its chairman, former deputy defense … and comprehensive steps must be taken in the near future to discourage further acquisition of nuclear weapons … nuclear non-proliferation regime. And if it’s successful, future generations may not have to tackle this old problem. …
J.P. Morgan

Time (Yet Again) for Preventative Regulation

… Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken’s junk bond shop, to die a slow death from 1986 to 1990, the term “regulation” … landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in … like Bear Stearns. To prevent such dangers again in the future we should reestablish the barrier between the …
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681

Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … who joined the remnants of the earlier group (some had died or been released earlier). Not until 1796 did the new … cash and naval stores to the Algerian government to prevent future captures. The United States was not alone in paying …
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker

… my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice … she would not be limited by society but also to ensure that future generations of women would not have to break barriers … life, writing books, giving speeches, and campaigning. She died on October 26, 1902, eighteen years before the passage …
Cover of The British Way of War by Andrew Lambert

Redefining Strategy in 20th Century Britain

Review of The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2021)
… armies fighting short, decisive campaigns on land as the future of British strategy. Corbett sought to dispel this … strategic priorities. Corbett disavowed continental commitment and mass armies, believing Britain should instead … Lambert’s work is exceptional and will appeal to a wide audience. …
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

… Musicals are the quintessential American dramatic art form, combining spoken dialogue with music, song, and dance. For … 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 …
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 … critically weakened the one entity best equipped to combat growing income inequality in the United States: …
 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)
… Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … the years before World War I was most remarkable for combining expanding trade, growth, and industrialization … 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

… drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout … 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 …