Search Results

Displaying 289 - 312 of 454
Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signing the Camp David Peace Accords on September 17, 1978.

Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker?

… new general Arab-Israeli war with devastating consequences for Israelis, Palestinians and the entire region. These … theme the denunciation of Democrats as being soft on communism, opened up relations with the People’s Republic of … 1970 and think about predicting that Richard Nixon would be visiting China and Russia, tripling trade with both nations, …
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, … us that talking about religion has always been a vehicle for talking about politics in the United States. From the … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. …
 Reagan in 1982.

Measuring Reagan for Greatness

… of the other rankings in the top ten — Bill Clinton (3), for example, outpolled George Washington (7) — seem unlikely … immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … University, Pomona, and a writer for the History News Service. …
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.

Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina

… of people, many decked out in hoop skirts and militia uniforms, will drink mint juleps and dance the night away. … "has nothing to do with slavery."  He proposes that it is a commemoration of South Carolinians who "stood up for their … opened a long and painful civil war.  Let's hope that this latest exchange of salvos—another confrontation with …

Colombia: On the Brink of Peace with the FARC?

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … Santos and the supreme commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, Fuerzas Armada Revolucionarios de … drug cartel (Left) . Secretary of State Colin Powell visiting Colombia in 2003 (Right) . While there were some …
Exiles carry a poster against the communist government of Cuba, in a demonstration in Miami

Cuba in Focus–Again

… again, even on Fidel Castro, whom most of us had almost forgotten — most, that is, except the million-plus … the exiles and the U.S. government joined in a powerful common cause to dump Castro, who, in the peak Cold War … although Americans still need U.S. government permission to visit Cuba legally, many go illegally through third …
Entrance gate of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, "Work Sets You Free," 2013

At the Movies: “Canaries,” A Review of Denial

… In her chapter, Lipstadt places part of the blame for the rise of Holocaust denial on relativist postmodern … of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The … of it all. However, when the triumphant Donald Trump visited Barack Obama in the White House after the election, …

A Century of Sanctions

… When confronted with foreign challenges, President Donald Trump has preferred one … administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … absolutely no fear of you!” ( top ). President Bill Clinton visiting Hanoi in 2000 after normalization of relations …
Earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… Department of History share how environmental history informs our shared future in a world confronted by pandemics, … boys, River and Blue. Folks, you can unveil yourselves and come on to the screen if you'd like. Welcome thank you for … of a fraction of that dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on …
Fort Bragg sign - home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces

Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New

… Once again U.S. Army bases named for confederate leaders are in the news cycle. The outgoing president vetoed the 2021 National … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases …
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… and persuaded her to lie about it had not been public for an hour before many observers were uttering sentences … at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An abbreviated list of what came to be … “a third-rate burglary.” So far, we have no proof that the latest addition to Starr’s amorphous investigation was even …
Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field

Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?

Review of Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free Market Health Care", by Robert I. Field (Oxford University Press, 2013)
… It’s a cry that’s only grown louder with passage of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 . With Mother of Invention, Robert … up to this point: to pay for everything from hospital visits to prescriptions, one needs health insurance. Of the … that translates to the future of American health care comes in his final chapter. “Health care cannot function,” …
Port of Buenos Aires

Cholera and Argentina: Insights for COVID-19

… with cholera in the 19 th century offers important insights for the COVID-19 world today, especially on the importance … began in 1817 and continue to this day, cholera ravaged communities and strained political and economic orders … In 1886, cholera arrived in Buenos Aires from Italy . As news broke of the epidemic, Brazil , a major trading …
US Marine Corps during Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

“Operation Mississippi Freedom”: When State-Sponsored Terrorism Was American

… existed in the United States. The trial of Edgar Ray Killen for the 1964 murders of civil rights workers James Chaney, … including 35 churches and numerous homes in this state. McComb, Miss., came to be known that summer as the bombing … effort succeeded, as the belated indictment of Killen — the latest in a series of Southern atonement trials — …

Socialism Takes Over France, Again?

… (the national colors). The two contenders in the run-off for France's highest office that took place on May 6, 2012 … it mildly. Socialism, at least in the United States, has become a byword among Republicans for fiscally irresponsible … social security system that remains the envy of most visitors—and the pride of most French citizens. It …
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. In the background: Upper and lower Yosemite Falls.

Why Today’s Politicians Love Teddy Roosevelt

… of the term “malefactors of great wealth,” Teddy’s label for corrupt corporations and businessmen. Three years later … a Milwaukee auditorium to deliver a speech. True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going … to be flip-floppers who shift their views according to the latest opinion polls. In such a political climate, it’s no …
President Reagan recites the Pledge of Allegiance with students from a Detroit Catholic school in 1984.

Affirming “Under God” Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism

… covers, official recitals of the God-infused pledge are now forbidden. Unlike last June, when politicians savaged a … evangelical Rev. Billy Graham rose to celebrity denouncing communism as a "satanic religion," while Secretary of State … highest form of patriotism. Historian David Greenberg is a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and …

The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … was the KBO from South Korea . Dominican young men play for their local baseball schools, which are places for … A group of Major Leaguers including Babe Ruth, for example, visited countries like Japan in 1934 not just to spread the …
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!

… Watch out for George W. and his gas and oil pals. They’ve got an … Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … and his gas and oil pals already seem to have persuaded the news media that supply is the problem. We don’t have enough …
First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room.

The Distant Horizon of a President

… to show indiscipline by way of embarrassing leaks; and foreign leaders from Nicolas Sarkozy to Vladimir Putin to … cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the … The Atlantic Century (2009) and is a writer for the History News Service. …
Protesters against the an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 election ballot.

The Gay-Marriage Amendment: A Danger to the Constitution

… consider the old Chinese adage, “Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it.” A gay marriage amendment, if … likely have to endure the result regardless of how much we come to regret it. The nation’s constitutional history is … that a wide range of matters from health care to hospital visitation rights to joint filing of income taxes ought to …
Lydia Vargo and Teamster with delivery wagon in Toledo, Ohio c. 1920.

The National Park Service Explores the History of Farm Labor in America

… of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated to southern California with four young daughters. The family caravanned up … With a sense of betraying la causa, I carried out mom's command. My mother was equally adamant that I was not to … the community to evaluate how best to promote the public's visitation of these landmarks and to educate the young and …