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"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.

The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery

… Sr., "that the other Slaveholding States, when once the Union is broken," would join "in the formation of a Slave … a compromise to bring the seceding states back into the union. Meanwhile, President-elect Lincoln refused to budge …
San Francisco frae the Marin Heidlands, with the Gowden Gate Brig in the foregroond.

The Real West Is an Urban West

… on America’s last frontier. So, we might think, here’s a national candidate who represents the “real” American West, … that there was no longer a discernable frontier line on the national map. The turning point was actually a decade …
book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads

… . During the 1940s and 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union built “atomic cities” dedicated to building their … Ozersk in secret and limited access to them in the name of national security. Both cities polluted their environments …
First edition dust jacket cover of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 1973 book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. The book conveys Thompson's experience covering the 1972 US presidential election, particularly the (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign of Democratic nominee George McGovern.

Democrats Must Beware the Curse of 1972

… supporters, especially those in the then-powerful labor unions, deserted the campaign. Others argue that even if the … But in fact such large numbers of white Southerners, labor union members and moderate Democrats defected mainly because … between the races. No matter what he says about the war, national unity or any other issue, the color of his skin …
Portrait of Neville Chamberlain, who was the Prime Minister of United Kingdom during the early months of World War II.

Lessons of Munich

… if the leading Western countries agreed to hold an international conference on the future of Palestine — with one … revealed that Britain would not only stay out of any German-Soviet conflict, but would also attempt to restrain its … but was, in fact, promoting a war against the hated Soviet Union. Ironically, in today’s world, it is those who are …

Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making

… instance, the joke is not far from the truth. Yemen’s internationally recognized government is sitting comfortably in … communist state by 1968. Aden became a naval base for the Soviet Union and multitudes of international terrorist …
Crowd with sign: "Black Caucus for Chisholm"

"Earn Your Spurs" (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 7)

… temperance movement. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was active in Kansas, including in the small town of … activist Mary McLeod Bathune and subsequently joined The National Council of Negro women, an organization of black … key female figures of both the Democratic and Republican National committees to form the National Women's Political …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… the United States began to stitch them into a cohesive international project deeply informed by its particular worldview … relatively minor busts and then turning them into international headlines, and wildly inflating the value of the … introductions for a fee. But he's too hot to be an international drug lord because he's super-duper famous all over …
Generals Eisenhower and Patton at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

On the Liberation of the Concentration Camps

… began liberating the concentration camps. Soldiers of the Soviet Union’s Red Army were actually the first to begin the … of the atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis, the international community sought justice . To punish Nazi leaders, …
Sobaek Mountain

A Postcard from Yeongju, South Korea

… Sobaek Mountain. Sobaek Mountain lies within Sobaeksan National Park. The mountain features a majestic ridge and … One of the famous tourist attractions in Sobaeksan National Park is Buseoksa Temple. Founded in 676 CE by Great … Heritage Site in 1995 and contains many of South Korea’s national treasures such as Muryangsujeon hall, Stone …
Republican Party Logo.

Republicans Should Look Back to the Future

… victory, Republicans were frequently battered in national elections by their association with the Great … the Second World War, he projected an image of strength on national defense.   Yet Eisenhower recognized that the … New Deal reforms that helped the aged, the unemployed, union workers and farmers. He stated bluntly, “Should any …
Tank in Syria

The Syrian Civil War: Alawites, Women's Rights, and the Arab Spring

… to power in a series of cruise in the 1960s. As an Arab nationalist movement, unbiased, at least theoretically with … who were fighting for their own independence as Arab nationalists. So they did not want to be a part of the … of thing. And this was largely out of fear of Sunni Arab nationalism, the French being colonial masters of Algeria, …
American soldiers making rolling barbed wire entanglements during World War I.

War Can Take On a Life of Its Own

… led to catastrophic consequences. In light of the rising national outrage, Americans might well take a deep … audacious, cowardly act of terrorism. Princip, a Bosnian nationalist, had connections to the Serbian ultra-nationalist organization, the Black Hand. For the …
Abraham Lincoln

Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

… Edwin Booth, the family’s most famous actor, an ardent unionist and friend of the man his brother assassinated. 5. … was re-elected in 1864. He did not allow dissent within the Union to undermine the war effort , and he learned to deal … of dismantling the legal barriers to racial equality at the national level. That meant a hundred years of discrimination …
Barry Faulkner's mural, "The Constitution," depicts the framers of the U.S. Constitution.

Term Limits: Thank Goodness We Didn’t Have Them in 1787

… — until he left the presidency in 1809. He served in the national Congress, the Virginia legislature, as governor of … great compromises — in 1820 and 1850 — that helped keep the Union from coming apart. Term limits might have kept him out …
Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

… purposefully silenced and erased from mainstream hegemonic nationalist narratives. Host: Lucy Murphy, Professor | … purposefully silenced and erased from mainstream hegemonic nationalist narratives. It is based on her dissertation. So … native culture. So this photograph here, this is from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition …
UN forces crossing the 38th Parallel in 1950.

Why We Need to Rearm Iraq

… into two occupation zones along the 38th parallel: a Soviet zone to the north and an American zone to the south. The Soviet Union withdrew its occupation forces in 1948; the United … even more in the future. Stacy Bergstrom Haldi teaches international relations at Gettysburg College. She is the author …
Barack Obama in 2008

How Eloquence Has Paved the Way to the White House

… like Obama, had only brief political experience at the national level but considerable skills as an orator. In the late 1850s Lincoln suddenly attracted national attention when he called for a new direction in … the Republican presidential race before he gave the Cooper Union speech in February 1860 in New York City. The prairie …
Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) Book Cover

Ho Chi Minh: A Biography

Review of Ho Chi Minh: A Biography, by Pierre Brocheux (translation by Claire Duiker) (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
… the ways in which Ho Chi Minh engaged groups of communists, nationalists, socialists, and liberal democrats during his travels in France, the Soviet Union, China, and Vietnam. The result is a measured portrait …
A makeshift hospital in Iowa during the 1918 flu pandemic

Pandemics: Past, Present, Future

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Dr. Thomas McDow … pandemic. And at Ohio State we are lucky to have a leading national program in the history of health, environment, …
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.

A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund

… fund offers unexpected opportunities to address pressing national educational and economic needs, if the president … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …