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Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism

… left ). Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and members of the national security team in the White House Situation Room … of the Atlantic Charter is now trying to leave the European Union ; the other just spent the last 18 months bullying its … Communists. Orbán delivering an anti-Communist and anti-Soviet speech at the reburial of Imre Nagy in 1989. In June …

South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election

… Recent years have seen Brazil take on an ever bolder international profile, a trend that is unlikely to change under … land. Investors also feared that the former metalworker and union leader would place little value on fiscal and monetary … to strengthen Brazil's regional leadership by forming the Union of South American Nations and re-launching Mercosur, …
The ruins of Ludlow

Which Side Are You On?: The Ludlow Massacre and Class Struggle in 1914

… 1913, Ludlow miners (pictured above in 1914) had struck for union recognition; the company's obedience to Colorado's … 1914, the strike had been completely broken. The Colorado National Guard arrives near the camp of the striking miners. … County, there are no neutrals there. You'll either be a union man, or a thug for J.H. Blair [Harlan County …
A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.

Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces

… being prepared to fight a massive tank battle against the Soviet Union for control of Europe, the administration believed, … The conflict spawned the Cold War and an arms race with the Soviet Union. This decades-long confrontation forced the …

The Question of Refugees: Past and Present

… the difficult journey to member states of the European Union in their ongoing search for safety. By extension, it … as internally displaced persons outside the scope of international legal conventions, or have found shelter in … took account not only of Nazi policy but also of Soviet totalitarianism. This is a long and convoluted story, …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… of war, Yemen teeters on the brink of what the European Union has described as “the world's largest humanitarian … whose roots lie in geography, religion, economics, and international relations. Today we'll examine various facets of … can turn this question over to Austin. In 1968 there was a Soviet correspondent named Pavel Demchenko and he was the …

Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment

… crisis since the Great Depression. In the fall of 2009, the national unemployment rate peaked at 10.1 percent and today … are hard to come by, but according to some accounts, the national unemployment rate climbed as high as 17 percent. … than denounced, government action. In his State of the Union Address in January 1983, Reagan proposed the extension …
Portrait of General Winfield Scott.

When “Sensitivity” Has Opened the Road to Victory

… policies might induce the Confederate states to rejoin the Union, or might at least ensure that the four border slave states still in the Union (Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri) would not … the possibility of an accidental collision with allied Soviet forces moving in on Berlin from the east. He also …
Dolley Madison, 1804, by Gilbert Stuart.

Women’s History and a Woman’s Subtle Power

… the alternatives Dolley offered us at the dawn of the national experiment. In the early days of the nation, few of … of California, Riverside. She is the author of "A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American …
Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

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

… would include women, Susan B. Anthony moved on to form the National Women's Suffrage Association. Kimberly Hamlin So … of their followers in the group they formed, called the National Women's Suffrage Association, started to say that … however, some of the women in what was again called the National Women's Suffrage Association made a novel argument, …
North Korea's prime minister Kim Il-sung and China's premier Zhou Enlai tour Beijing in 1958.

China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem

… As the international community struggles to respond effectively to the … with the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union each primarily responsible for peace and order within …
Stamp commemorating revolution in Iraq

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

… for the revolt had been laid by liberal and radical nationalists based in the cities. Together they forged a … later showed no sign of tolerating Iraqi self-government. Nationalist leaders watched with increasing alarm as British … Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra convinced nationalists in the capital that the moment was ripe for …
Group of women protesting against the ERA with signs: "Stop the web of deception," "ERA means Amy register for the draft at 18," "Maternity ward - persons only"

Mom and Apple Pie (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 6)

… socialism and communism that they watched develop in the Soviet Union. This was the era of McCarthyism, after all, in the … very active in Republican policy, but mostly in terms of national defense. She felt that the United States wasn't …
Exiles carry a poster against the communist government of Cuba, in a demonstration in Miami

Cuba in Focus–Again

… who, in the peak Cold War years, had allied Cuba with the Soviet Union. But the exiles' relationship with Washington began … Castro. The powerful and conservative Cuban-American National Foundation, the political heavyweight of the many …
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India

The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade

Review of Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control , by Steffen Rimner (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… Control , Steffen Rimner examines how this revision of international thinking came to be. The shift, as Rimner charts … and non-governmental organizations. They created an international movement against the opium trade. By broadening the … actors as diverse as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Sharada Saran (a school for girls in Bombay …
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"

The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now

… on the basis of sex. Now, in an atmosphere of renewed national attention on issues affecting women, this proposed … the years, thinking about work changed in the 1960s, when union and wage-earning women came on board, and they reached … groups, supported it: religious institutions, labor unions, black civil rights organizations. It was truly a …
A barricade in central Berlin during the March 1848 uprising.

March 1848: The German Revolutions

… representatives began in Frankfurt on March 31, and the new National Assembly met for the first time in St. Paul’s … would set the Confederation on a path toward a more unified national future, perhaps with the King of Prussia as the head of state. In the end, though, the National Assembly did not achieve those long-term goals and …
A woman voting in the early 20th century.

Could We Postpone the Election — Even If We Wanted To?

… is that? Because states will resist. Setting the date of national elections is one of the few powers that the … over election rules allows state politicians to influence national politics indirectly. Examples from both the recent … election guidelines. The threat of terrorists disrupting a national election might overwhelm this constitutional custom …

A New Congo Crisis?

… They gave new insight into the convergence of an international network of business interests and the political … the system of colonial companies. The best known was the Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK, Mining Union of Upper Katanga), which controlled copper mines in …
The so-called "Elgin Marbles," on display in the British Museum

Classics and the Alt-Right Conundrum

… and promoted in recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the U.S. draw contemporary … existing culture for the worse is a common view among white nationalists in the US, and existential fears of losing what … and promoted and recent propaganda. Why and how do nationalists in Europe and the US draw connections to …
BJP rally in India

The Politics of India

… second time at the end of September 2015. Does Modi’s Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, or “BJP,” also spell a … Cold War, that gave anxiety to the US at times and to the Soviet Union at times. So that's the history that we're that were …

A Century of HIV

… in the Cold War struggles between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Congo provides the most striking example of this … had the disease. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi at the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in …
Soldiers marching at the Champs Elysee

Recovering the History of the French Far-Right

Review of Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of France , by Gayle K. Brunelle and Annette Finley-Croswhite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020)
… leadership in France, dedicated to a conservative “National Revolution”—were to blame for the attack was hardly … Georges Kubler of France’s investigative body, the Sûreté Nationale, were determined to find out. And so begins … 1940. Less than a month later, on July 10, 1940, the French National Assembly would vote to end the Third Republic and …