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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, …
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 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 …
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.

Inequality After Apartheid

Review of Apartheid Guns and Money: A Tale of Profit, by Hennie van Vuuren (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
… with foreign countries, notably the “big five”: France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and United Kingdom, and China. … leads off Chapter 1, “Before we delve into the murky international dimensions of this machinery, we need to understand …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to understand why the world … is the real spurred to both an effort to create an international drug control regime, but also some of the kind of … that's where you start to get the development of this international movement. It's both a formal and an informal …
Emancipation Memorial Statue

Emancipation by What Means?

Review of The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom, by H.W. Brands (New York: Doubleday, 2020)
… Stephen Douglas, both from Illinois. Douglas was already a nationally-prominent Democrat who tried to tread a fine line … the Civil War as a chance to obtain freedom by fleeing to Union lines. “Emancipation Memorial” (1876) by Thomas Ball, … shown as remaining subservient and lacking personal agency. Union generals such as Benjamin Butler and John C. Fremont …
Launching of the USS RALPH JOHNSON in Mississippi.

A New Cold War in the Caribbean?

… Marine forces poised to launch strikes from the sea against Soviet and Cuban forces at the height of the Cuban Missile … for the United States. In 1962, America and the Soviet Union came as close as they ever would to nuclear war. The … McCain on the right in an effort to appear strong on national defense, Obama should make the case that McCain has …