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Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.

Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power

… elections, as well as their personnel — generals, soldiers, kings and candidates.   No one tells us more about all the …   The official men of the government did not know that working together would be the salvation of the bipartisan … and finally see it as her lasting gift to the nation. By making politics a party to which everyone is invited, Dolley …
First house built with a loan from the Federal Housing Administration after World War II.

Reforming a Welfare State

… these two statements, from citizens of the English-speaking country that gave us the concept of a welfare state, … in varying degrees throughout Western Europe and the United Kingdom, provided a variety of subsidized social services to … cutting and, to a lesser extent, privatization are striking at welfare-state systems in general, what is happening …
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!

… supply-side energy policy reigns and fossil fuel is still King. Not since the 1950s, when President Dwight D. … in Silicon Valley, is the author of "Energy and the Making of Modern California" (1997) and a writer for the …
Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… of History Talk .   Patrick Potyondy   We'll begin by asking Kevin to introduce himself to join our first two guests … completely differently. This is proven by polls that are asking opinions about Trayvon Martin or Ferguson, Missouri as the most recent examples of …
resident Harry Truman, left, congratulates Gen. George Marshall (architect of the Marshall Plan) , Fair Use via AP

The Marshall Plan

The Marshall Plan, signed into law by President Harry Truman on April 3, 1948, was intended to revive the economies of war-torn Western Europe.
… nearly $13 billion to primarily France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and West Germany, the program was an …
children, men, women and soldiers during WWII

10 Great World War II Films

Focusing on films that “do” history well; that is, offer meaningful interpretations about the past or otherwise engage thoughtfully with previous interpretations of the past.
… , France, Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969 9:56 Overlord , United Kingdom, Stuart Cooper, 1975 11:20 Germany, Pale Mother , …
a group of Ukrainian theatre performers on a stage

Ukrainian Theater on the Soviet Stage

On a summer day in August 1920, in the middle of war, a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth.
… wartime conditions, they did a play about the murder of a king and the ensuing chaos and devastation, painfully …
Soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division provide perimeter security for Iraqi policemen at a traffic control point in Tikrit, Iraq.

The Limits of Shock and Awe

… cost Ferguson his life in the South Carolina forests at King's Mountain, where American "peasants" carrying … would experience "a complete breakdown," as civilians, seeking to end their "horror and suffering," would "rise up and …
 Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.

He Led His People Into the Desert

Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
… or fiery-tempered, generous or miserly, attention seeking or deeply private, the man, much like the larger … millenarian, or otherwise radical religious thought taking hold of the so-called Burned-Over District from which … himself to his ecclesiastical superiors while taking his place as the patriarchal leader of his own family. …
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… and East-European archives, The Six-Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East demonstrates that in addition to the … under Abdul Gamar Nasser, Syria’s Baath Party, and Jordan’s King Hussein rarely spoke with one voice. In fact, Syria had … against its neighbors. The White House did this with the backing of the CIA and the Pentagon but against the will of the …
President Biden, standing in front of a blue flag with an eagle emblem

First 100 Days of the Biden Administration: Insights from History

… HarperCollins, Seal Press, Rowman & Littlefield, and St. Martin's Press. Treva B. Lindsey is an associate professor … Within 100 hours, he signed 17 executive orders, 12 revoking counterproductive immigration policies of the previous … and undocumented immigrants rather than just those lacking papers, revoking immigration orders and also the border …

As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past

… economic sanctions, political isolation, scores of assassination plots against the Cuban leadership, and years … some of the most fundamental premises of U.S. strategic thinking, “imperiling the very survival of the United States,” … War. The bottom caption on the original read: "Taking Cuba from Spain was easy. Preserving it from …
Joseph Stalin

Dismantling a Legacy: The Last Days of Stalin

Review of The Last Days of Stalin, by Joshua Rubenstein (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015)
… who were charged with attempting to assassinate high-ranking Soviet officials, and a power struggle among members of … Stalin, both at the Party and ground level, but someone looking for an explanation of where that fear originated and …

"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent

… opposition parties, this smelled like a monarchy in the making. The morning of June 23, demonstrators gathered legally … there are shortages of everything. Now Wade wants to be our king, but we don't want a king. We want our country back." Returning to my room, I …
Bartolome de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice

… This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's conscience. Bartolomé de las Casas, … of war who were not Catholic . This category included Lutherans, Muslim Turks, Orthodox Slavs, non-Catholic … newly encountered indigenous peoples in the Americas, working many of them to death. The Spanish committed numerous …
1864 depiction of the Fort Pillow Massacre in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper

Ten Moments of White Supremacist Violence in U.S. History

… of 130 black men celebrating the convention before attacking those in the convention hall. By the time they ran out … Robertson, and Denise McNair ( right ). Two weeks after Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, Klan members …
The Battle of Waterloo, 1815

Winning and Losing at the Battle of Waterloo

… international ridicule, particularly in the United Kingdom. "Water-boo," crowed The Sun. "Just for once, France … democracy." These cross-Channel jibes are especially striking given that Britain, which left the European Union after … of 2015, members of the British royal family joined high-ranking dignitaries from other European nations and a quarter …