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Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.

Native Americans in Urban Places

Review of , “The Chiefs Now in This City”: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America, by Colin Calloway (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021)
… in between. Historians have traditionally focused on the outcomes of “the chiefs now in this city,” namely, treaties. … was a man who traveled with an escort of Pennsylvania soldiers; who insisted on not only an interpreter but a clerk … near the New Lutheran Church, 1800. Teedyuscung died in a suspicious fire that engulfed his home city in the …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)

… she's kind of dangerous and they're not 100% sure that they buy into all of her ideas. So they reluctantly agree to let … says things like “Oh God, if I have to meet with these ladies, can I at least please pick the time that they come?!” … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
President Theodore Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.

Executive Conservation

Review of Presidents and the American Environment, by Otis L. Graham, Jr. (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2015)
… If not preservation, Graham writes, Imagine Donald Trump buying Yosemite as home for several lit-up resort hotels and … with their sprawling parking lots . . . the Mormon Church buying and closing Bryce Canyon to all but its members, and … onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …
The Dalai Lama during a visit to Boston, Massachusetts in 2017.

An Effective American Policy on Tibet?

… Tibet. They demand that President Clinton act forcefully to compel China to change its policies toward Tibet. This … done. Clinton will seem like an activist president without committing himself to very much. And the Tibetans? In … religion and would just as soon wait for the Dalai Lama to die. Meanwhile, its members encourage the migration of …

Making Sense of the 'Hermit Kingdom': North Korea in the Nuclear Age

… significant opposition, the Bush administration quickly complied with the terror-list demand (in return for certain … recommended caloric intake and families tried to survive on diets of weeds, roots, and bark. "Today," began one official … not even imagine being disloyal to Kim Il-sung. When he died I was sad much as when my father died." Evidence …
Logo of General Motors.svg

The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors

… in spring 2009. What was then the world’s largest auto company had been hemorrhaging money for years, losing an … astonishing $69.6 billion in 2007-2008. By early 2009, the company faced bankruptcy, with no private investors willing … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University.   …
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.

The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath

… to Mark Twain, “it often rhymes.” Indeed, few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 … allows us to speculate about the aftermath of COVID-19 . Medieval Eurasian Trade Routes, with the red lines indicating … down the social scale, signaling the final death knell of medieval feudalism. In the end, rather than proving an …
First Cabinet of President Barack Obama in the White House East Room.

The Distant Horizon of a President

… cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the … and permanent. Everyone’s attention span is short. But the complex job of the president adheres to a different time … are now of Polk and Wilson. These presidents had in common the setting of a few clear goals and great …
soldiers at the battle of Lincoln

King Stephen and The Anarchy: A Reign Reconsidered

… figure in Anglo-Norman society, admired by both nobles and commoners for his wealth, charm, and decisiveness.  Stephen … on Empress Matilda’s absence in Normandy when Henry I died. With support from Londoners and the Church—secured … lands, and Henry would succeed to the throne.  Stephen died in October 1154, buried next to Queen Matilda at …

China Dreams and the “Road to Revival”

… 29, 2012, newly appointed General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Xi Jinping gave a speech that would … competition, can be heard on Dragon TV; and state-sponsored websites devoted to the China Dream litter the Internet. The … desires into those of the group. Getting individuals to buy into the China Dream means ridding the past and present …
A photograph of Dr. David Livingstone from 1857.

Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire

Review of Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?: Missionaries, Journalists, Explorers, and Empire, by Clare Pettitt (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 2007)
… The writer Walter Benjamin once suggested that "History decomposes into images, not narratives" and Clare Pettitt … to Livingstone's servants Susi and Chuma. Livingstone died shortly after being so famously found and it was they … role in shaping our view of Africa. While Livingstone had died shortly after the meeting, Stanley continued to be a …
Pope Francis smiling from inside a car as he leaves the White House in 2015.

Embracing the Pope–Selectively

… Protestants. Evangelical-Catholic relations have come a long way over the last generation, but for all their … affirming what these two branches of Christendom hold in common. And in the best-selling Christian novel, “Left … their warm feelings for the late pope to his stand against communism, his commitment to Christian orthodoxy and his …

Beyond 'Tribes': Violence and Politics in Kenya

… is familiar with political defeat: the elder Odinga was bested by Kenya's first post-independence president, Jomo … going to take their seats the next day and that they were completely resolute in overturning the election and bringing … only survivors were two persons buried alive in a pile of bodies. The media have also discussed how the Kenyan political …
Lawrence Halprin

Lawrence Halprin and Two Modern Spaces

… outside of Haifa, then Palestine , working on a kibbutz (a communal farm). When Halprin returned to the U.S. he trained … drugs at one end of the fountain, walk to the other end and die. This was not the “interactivity” Halprin had in mind. … it was her “favorite spot on the National Mall.” Before he died in 2009, Halprin explained that he “made [the memorial] …
Fort Bragg sign - home of the Airborne and Special Operations Forces

Renaming Southern Army Bases Is Nothing New

… helped orchestrate the deaths of thousands of American soldiers. After the Civil War, James Longstreet atoned for his … the place where they were located. The Army needed local “buy in” to build sprawling bases on large swaths of land to … moves from the Jim Crow era. The opportunity to change our common legacy rests fully in our hands. Renaming these bases …

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

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … we have kept our unswerving loyalty to those who died in defense of our principles since the beginning of our … deployed,” and to the point: “He should pay for it until he dies.” When asked under what conditions the United States …
Royal Irish Rifles in foxhole at Battle of the Somme, 1916

Legacies of the Great War

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … where all of these nations are using armies of citizen soldiers, where they're conscripting instead of using …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… in biomedicine in recent years. Three of our “deadly companions.” Poliovirus ( left ), Influenza ( center ), and … the leader Pericles. Pericles, an Athenian statesman who died during the Plague of Athens in 429 BCE. The results … of religion or law,” according to Thucydides, and the bodies of victims were often buried in mass graves. In the …
Taliban fighters patrol the streets of Kabul in August, 2021.

Who are the Taliban?

… the Taliban now confront the challenge of governing this complex country and establishing a stable government. Since … to everyday and intimate forms of violence. Their foot soldiers have asserted the right to assault men and women whom … apparatus was a crucial step. They published a website in the late 1990s but soon abandoned it, preferring …
Painted poster of Saddam Hussein riddled with bullet holes in 2003.

Hybrid Justice for Hussein

… former leaders have been brought to account for misdeeds committed while in office. But there are obstacles to trying … to create a South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address this concern.) It also runs the risk … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …
 Pinterest Hien Luong Bridge - Ben Hai River, Quang Tri, Vietnam

Vietnam Revisited: Forty Years after the Paris Peace Accord

… It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing … at times tortured, brutalized, and killed by American soldiers in search-and-destroy missions. The total number of Americans who died or are missing in the war is just over 58,000, while …

Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks

… remittance of funds without having to use banknotes or coins. Emergency wartime arrangements were also extended to … the Federal Reserve Bank of New York continued to buy “unwanted” (read, “commercially worthless”) assets … and 2013. Indeed, we were still living with the barely studied consequences of the financial crisis of 2008 when the …
The Education of Little Tree by Forest Carter book cover.

Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition

… as fakes should make readers ask why these cliches are so compelling in the first place. Autobiographies, with their … outsiders were offering up their life stories to an audience eager to learn about life on the margins. As early as … minority group to a primarily white, middle-class reading audience. Both the reader and the writer of an outsider …