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… propaganda campaign. Unfortunately, however, propagandists will be starting from scratch; the effort to craft a … World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information, led by journalist George … the excesses of World War I by moving more cautiously. The Office of War Information, established in 1942, conveyed the …

… entered into a second war, more vicious than that fought against the Axis powers. If eight percent of the population … coups d’état and dozens of governments. Although Greek communists had been a serious threat to all Greece’s … in October 1944, Greece was in a state of crisis, which soon led to the outbreak of another round of violence. By …

… in sight. Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has yet to offer a clear vision of how it might end. Perhaps he is in … self-love and no national self-respect.” They would feel good and right about themselves only when they took control … as a permanent fact of life. The Zionists aimed to overcome that psychological infirmity by making the Jews a …

… Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy who interview guests Corbin Williamson , Jonathan Romaneski , and Jeffrey Lewis as they … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone, … fought one of the most ferocious gorilla organizations for 30 years, the Tamil Tigers. The Tamil Tigers made extensive …

… investments broadly through risky buyouts of disparate companies. Often they stuffed their pockets with cash while … on the American people. Then, in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the empires they had built like a house of cards … and Exchange Commission. The SEC required that stock offerings contain detailed financial information, to permit …

… President Bush will spend most of this month at his ranch in Crawford, Tex. … as Don Van Natta’s recent book on presidential golf, “First off the Tee,” claims. Even more important, as the case of … view of wartime Washington. On most mornings, Lincoln commuted into the city, but during hot summer months his …

… his recent decision to launch Operation Odyssey Dawn, the code name for the air strikes against Libya's Moammar … never quite sure what those air assaults should or could accomplish. Though he hoped that Hanoi would abandon its … But how far will we support them? Will U.S. forces offer logistical and military assistance to the rebels in …

… war,” Germany’s chancellor, Theobold von Bethmann-Hollweg complained as the First World War began. The “scrap of … United Nations remaining at the center of the international order.” As the move toward war on Iraq began in 2001, the … Council then agreed to warn Iraq to yield. It was not willing, without a further resolution, to legitimate the use …

… Catholics  worldwide, consider what troubles the 267th  Bishop of Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the … of Cardinals this year, Leo XIV  observed that “the Church offers to everyone the treasury of her social teaching in …

… a table with friends and fight over.  I mean that as a high compliment, since there are far too many books out there, … six biographies.  He starts with Robert Taft, moves on to William Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Phyllis Schlafly, and … of Barack Obama in 2008 but in the fact that when he left office, Bush's approval ratings stood at 20%. Farber wants …

… Wars are remembered primarily as European affairs, and for good reasons. The wars and the politics around them led to … impact outside Europe than in it, he nevertheless makes a compelling case for viewing these wars as events of truly … Napoleon, Tsar Alexander I of Russia, and King Frederick William III and Queen Louise of Prussia in Tilsit. The …

… in order to separate it from the scandalous collapse of a commercial bank that had strong financial links to the king. … remittance of funds without having to use banknotes or coins. Emergency wartime arrangements were also extended to … of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in May 1930 as a bank that “fosters international monetary and …

… emerged as a spokesperson for a diverse global movement to combat the climate crisis following a spate of … of prosperity and expansion, made manifest in suburbs and shopping malls, automobiles and interstate highways , and an … the ensuing weeks 235,000 gallons of crude oil blackened 30 miles of idyllic Pacific coast shoreline. As the disaster …

… “Christianize” the Holocaust in order to play down Catholic complicity in Nazi atrocities. This controversy comes at a … because they had killed Christ, a position that was not officially condemned until 1965. This is not to say that … in Holland, the Nazis made an offer to the Dutch Catholic bishops. If the bishops did not speak up against the …

… by promising Mexico "juntos haremos historia" ("together we will make history"). Pundits have fallen over themselves … history to corruption and the politics of Mexico's "Other Border," we explore in this episode the historical context …

… A commemorative 1965 Iraqi stamp marking the 45th anniversary … assortment of patriotic and religious grievances. British officials had declared that they came as liberators from … Towns and villages that resisted the imposition of the new order found themselves subjected to brutal punishment, most …

… During the last four weeks, the Election Assistance Commission, the Justice Department and the Department of … chads, and the partisanship of Florida’s top election official, Secretary of State Katharine Harris — seemed to … also would need to address the fact that in many states, a good deal of voting occurs before Election Day. In 1932, …

… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … headlines such as “Venom, Sensationalism, Attacks on Honest Officials, Distorted News, and Appeals to Passion.” The … through radio. But this all began to change by the late 1930s when newspapers rapidly bought up radio stations and, in …

… is written with concision and eloquence, and in it Morris offers a wealth of anecdotes about some of the better known … of the Treasury and creator of the Federal Reserve, William McAdoo, dug his own grave years before his 1920 … of the presidency itself has changed, making his comparisons something of an apples and oranges exercise.  …

… a few token troops and ships to defend itself and exert its will overseas. By directly attacking the enemy’s homeland … capabilities. And after he made a public attack on official air policies, he was court-martialed in 1925 and … to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could …

… on the one-dollar bill lived a long time ago. His last communication – the "Farewell Address" of 1796 – was really … That's a simplistic interpretation. Washington's words offered wise instruction that Obama should heed.   Our first … Georgia), and in the Middle East (think Israel). The world will welcome the new president's restoration of Washington's …

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello and welcome to "Postwar Decolonization and Its Discontents." … forced removal of tribes for the Indian removal Act of 1830. We want to honor the resiliency of these Tribal Nations, … Reverend Michael Scott of the UK, not the character in the office. But instead he is a quite prominent anti-apartheid …