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a billboard with flags of many countries and the word Peace on it.

A Conscientious Objector Looks Back

… were symbolic munYou would the announcement over the intercom: .. Youhear would hear the announcement sentiment was … intervention in Vietnam, the Unitedand States Draft board. For religious reasons, sought obtained official … board would went for his Army physical in Bo ton. the hallway littered with broken The man the was scene. mattre.,, in …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford … disappeared, although designers and utilities were slow to get the message. Nuclear power plant capacities grew bigger … and bigger but this meant that new projects often were underway before their engineering was completed. The shadow of …
Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a panel of experts to discuss current events in … in the political science literature. And there are other ways to participate. Of course, one of the things that a lot …
The Sofia Monument to the Soviet Army painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag din support of the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution.

World War II in Eastern Europe: Many Lands, Many Memories

… European countries see the analogy in exactly the opposite way. For them, Putin’s actions recall the German invasion of … territories and population, rendering them proponents of revisiting the postwar treaties. There was little trust … went to school with both Roma and Jewish kids. We played together. We shared treats. We sang and created music …

Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now

… Santorum, April 2021 Former Pennsylvania senator (and CNN commentator) Rick Santorum made those comments at a … by this, is that American history has been constructed in a way that completely ignores Indigenous histories and … not every school district has. Even so, when I was able to get access to educational programming from our Native …

The Real Marriage Revolution

… often called revolutionary.  And so it is, but not in the way most people assume. The reason it is revolutionary is … in the first five books of the Old Testament.  It was common throughout ancient India, the Middle East, Africa, … heterosexual relationships either. St. Paul maintained that getting married was better than being consumed with passion …
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo and Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea attend a working lunch in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on October 7, 2018.

Kim Jong-un and the “Madman Theory” of Diplomacy

… missed the mark by a mile — missiles are hardly the only way to deliver a nuclear bomb. A slow freighter sailing into the Port of Long Beach would get the job done. The madman theory has deep roots on the Korean peninsula. Nixon learned this first hand when he visited South Korea in 1953 as vice president. An …

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

… shooting up, prices and the official record have parted ways.” Real inflation might be two to three times higher … where tourists and porteños (inhabitants of Buenos Aires) come to exchange currency. As one walks the streets, the … the brokers offer prime exchange rates with the hope of getting access to U.S. dollars. The result is a rainbow …

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

… from power. His coalition brought most of the opposition together simply to oust those who had held power since … toward the U.S. President George W. Bush made a celebrated visit to the country in July 2003 in the wake of the Iraq … but hypocrites, robbers of cash. Government, why do you always lie, always?" By then the Arab Spring was in full …
Cover of Caesar A Life in Western Culture by Maria Wyke.

A Man for All Seasons

Review of Caesar: A Life in Western Culture, by Maria Wyke (Chicago 2008)
… Her hope in studying the reception of Julius Caesar in this way, ultimately, is "to expose shifts in the reconstruction, … Whereas in the 20th century, Caesar could just as easily become the savage conqueror again, someone to be resisted passionately, while Vercingetorix, the Gallic chieftain who would finally surrender to …
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was one of the bloodiest in history: 8 million people lost their lives in Europe's deadliest religious conflict.

Secularism, Past and Future

Review of Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom, by Andrew Copson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
… and the public sphere. Secularism, he argues, is our best way to achieve civic harmony while protecting the right to … French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … could operate in separate realms. This is a prelude that gets us to Copson’s main interests. After this quick …
Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.

Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech

… of political activities links citizenship to wealth in a way that has long been outside the mainstream of American … not only had a will of their own, they were gradually getting the vote. John Stuart Mill observed in 1861 that … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s …

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

… both arrested on assault charges in Atlantic City after getting into what Rice’s attorney then described as a “minor … the elevator. (Photo Credit, AP)  In late July 2014, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also handed Rice a two game … police departments’ policies of looking the other way when men beat women and a social-service system …
Satchel Paige with bat boys in the dugout watching a game in Los Angeles, ca. 1943.

Satchel Paige: The First Negro League Player Inducted into the Hall of Fame

… someday, the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in some way can be added as a symbol of the great Negro players that … At a young age, to make money for his family, Paige carried visitors’ bags at the train station. As the story goes, he … with clam shells. As a professional, he changed his targets from animals and insects to soda bottles, holes in …
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.

Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate

… war in space.” The wizards of military technology have always flourished in times of relative tranquillity. From 1871 … which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … to use them and making sure they hit their intended targets. Advocates of military might think that they’ll solve …
 Cover of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire by Steven Bryan.

All that Glitters Is Not Laissez-Faire

Review of The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Rising Powers, Global Money, and the Age of Empire, by Steven Bryan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010)
… Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … money" of the gold standard, created the conditions for a worldwide boom in investment and production.  The … turn toward the gold standard was part of a larger shift away from laissez-faire and towards an expansion of state …

A Sea of Troubles: The Philippines and Pacific Geopolitics

… Philippine Sea.” About a year later, President Barack Obama visited Manila to mark the signing of a new Enhanced Defense … to Asia. In 1899, when the Boxer Rebellion in China targeted Westerners, 2,500 U.S. soldiers quickly traversed the … If the turn-of-the-century Philippines had provided a waystation for U.S. activity in Asia, now the archipelago …
George W. Bush and Al Gore

Bush v. Gore Twenty-Five Years Later

… candidate who won the popular vote had been defeated. In a way, the entire controversy stemmed from what sociologist … call “the law of unintended consequences.” That phrase has come to be understood as a warning that intervention in a … half weeks for the incoming presidential administration to get ready. Making that challenge even greater was the huge …
Mourners picket after the Triangle fire. Their signs, hung with black crepe, accuse shop owners of graft, locked doors, and managing workers in fire traps.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

… in New York City over a century ago has shaped your life in ways you may not realize.  The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist … later, they saw workers from the ninth floor—who did not get a call and did not know what was happening until the … Investigating Commission, which travelled around the state visiting factories, talking with workers and observing …