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President JFK giving an address on civil rights in June, 1963.

A President Who Was Still Growing

… By issuing such a challenge, he inspired a strong sense of national purpose and pride, especially among young … invasion led to a critically dangerous showdown with the Soviet Union over Cuba, while his continued support of South …
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.

Japan’s Meiji Restoration

… conscript army, launched new industries, and established a national education system, all under the slogan “rich … and a constitutional monarchy modeled on Prussia. It held national elections, seated a national parliament, and transformed Japanese social and …
Cover of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire by Taner Akçam

The Crime That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Review of The Young Turks' Crime against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire, by Taner Akçam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… the Ottoman treatment of Armenians in 1915. In the name of "national security," the Turkish legal system criminalizes … defeats in WWI, and, above all, a belief that Ottoman "national security " demanded a permanent solution to the … in the homogenization policies of the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), the Young Turks' governing body …
British Prime Minister Tony Blair, pictured in 2002

Apologizing for History

… … Daniel Szechi … History News Service … Global/Transnational … Economics/Business/Trade … Genocide … Apologizing …
A 1960s photo of a hallway inside the Philadelphia County Prison.

Have We Learned Nothing About Prisons?

… on September 9, 1971, an army of New York State police and National Guardsmen stormed the prison and killed 39 … individuals incarcerated in jails and prison systems nationally. We have the second highest per capita … with gas, helicopters, and machine guns blazing, police and National Guardsmen stormed the prison, indiscriminately …
Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2006.

Far Right’s Electoral Success in France has Deep History

… the years leading up to World War II. Le Pen, head of the National Front Party, is not the first French politician to succeed by using anti-immigrant, xenophobic and nationalist rhetoric to gain political support. In fact, his … to these predecessors. “France for the French,” one of his National Front’s long-standing slogans, dominated the scene …
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' declaration from Flag Day 1919 that forbade membership in the organization to anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World, Bolsheviks, and other organizations perceived as unpatriotic.

Sanitizing American Tradition

Review of Inventing American Tradition: From the Mayflower to Cinco de Mayo, by Jack David Eller (London: Reaktion Books, 2018)
… back to the Civil War, not to the colonial period. Both the Union and the Confederacy made Thanksgiving proclamations … “American Political Traditions” (in which he discusses the National Anthem, the flag, Uncle Sam, the Pledge of Allegiance and …
pile of syringes

The Global War on Drugs

… images are 50 years old. President Nixon had created a national commission to study marijuana and he even chose the … of the United States, just as it is not a client of the Soviet Union. We could sort of think of this as pursuing a third …
State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen Book Cover.

The Anatomy of the Military-Industrial Complex

Review of State of War: The Political Economy of American Warfare, 1945-2011, by Paul A. C. Koistinen (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas Press, 2012)
… economic, and power considerations than by those of national security" (p. 168). In the next chapter Koistinen …
David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israel's independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl.

Zionist Idea of Security Blocks Path to Peace

… of anti-Semitism, they had “no real self-love and no national self-respect.” They would feel good and right about … of their own, but exercising a “normal” degree of national power on the stage of world history. They expected … a show of power as the only route to “real self-love” and “national self-respect.” Five Israeli-Arab wars and 34 years …
The Warren Court (1953–1969).

Blending Empathy and Justice

… that “continuity with change” than any other branch of our national government.   The court, as personified by Warren, …

Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America

… while the latter connected domestic issues with international developments. The regulation of electricity and … resulted in a regulatory era in which municipal, state, and national commissions shaped the markets in two general ways. … gas market disrupted local economies, which affected the national economy. Meanwhile, in the international arena, …
Laura Bush May 18, 2008.

The Legacy of a Lady

… historic preservation to Katrina relief as well as international efforts, including the United Nations Literacy … of its seemingly private sphere and make it the core of our national mission. Earnest consideration of Laura Bush’s … of California, Riverside. She is the author of "A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American …
Palestinians during the first intifada, 1987. (Photo by Peter Stepan)

The Long Shadow of the June 1967 War

… contest was the third in a series of Arab-Israeli international wars. It was preceded by a conflict in 1948-49 in … the belligerents to accept it. Johnson sought to prevent Soviet political gains by pressuring Moscow to accept U.S. … U.S. naval ships into the Eastern Mediterranean after the Soviets threatened vaguely to intervene militarily on behalf …