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Reagan in 1982.

Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?

… Saving the Union by defeating the Confederate army and being elected … want to be reminded that Richard Nixon tried to create a national health care system.   No, the current Republican … watched the Kremlin used to study photographs of official Soviet events to see which Communist Party members were …
A map showing China and the United States

Another Cold War? China This Time?

… Largely with that objective, Christian groups, trade unions, and politicians, including presidential hopefuls … guarded trains, mines, and other facilities for the Chinese Nationalists, who were then fighting the founders of today’s … Diplomacy/International Relations …
a couple in a wedding dress and soldier dress uniform

Between Two Worlds: Jewish War Brides After the Holocaust

… after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe: … after the war. She offers an intimate portrait of how these unions emerged and developed—from meeting and courtship to … after unspeakable loss. Proponents believed that these unions were more than just a ticket out of war-torn Europe. …

Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… securing a second term, Obama appeared at Fort McNair’s National Defense University to launch a public discussion … and slow” by comparison. Months later, Spaatz predicted the Soviets had “improved on the German buzz bomb” capable of … attack by the Warsaw Pact.” By 1991, the year of the Soviet Union’s collapse, fictional drones were once again …
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair

Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?

… rages. Brand was criticized for his rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was … won victory in the Pacific, Knight coached Indiana to three national titles and eleven Big Ten championships. But in the … rating him a page-one story in The New York Times and a national interview on ESPN. In support of Knight, students …
Unification council of Orthodox Church in Ukraine, 2018.

The Religious Roots of the War in Ukraine

… grounds. In 1596, the Ruthenian bishops signed the Union of Brest. The resulting Uniate church accepted Roman … Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC) in 1921.   Soviet antireligious policies crippled church structures and … both Orthodox and Catholics claim the mantel of being the national faith.  The Catholics participate in the universal …
Photo of A. Mitchell Palmer, a congressman from Pennsylvania who later became the U.S. Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson.

Cracking Down on Dissent

… a private institution; the student chapter of the National Lawyers Guild; and four members of pacifist groups … With the onset of the Cold War, genuine apprehensions about Soviet power and the widespread fears it engendered prepared … back in the courts, as the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Lawyers Guild in Albuquerque have …
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 …

The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis

… bank was closed and every ATM was empty. A line at the National Bank of Greece in 2015 with a “vote no” poster in … exit from the Eurozone (the countries in the European Union (EU) using the Euro as currency). A 2015 march against … that Germany controls the money within the European Union, fuels animus today towards Merkel and the German …
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 …
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)
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 … Global/Transnational

From Baghdad to Kabul: The Historical Roots of U.S. Counterinsurgency Doctrine

… administration of the program enabled insurgents from the National Liberation Front to overrun or infiltrate most of … for their collaboration with coalition forces. Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I), under the command of General … his primary goal, neatly summed up by President Bush in a nationally televised speech, "As the Iraqis stand up, we …
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 …
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, …