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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 …
Mexican flag in a square

A Postcard from Mexico City

… the region. Examples of these projects can be found in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. At the top … by the Aztecs, colonizers, and contemporary people. The National Palace is situated to the left of and to the right … temples the Aztecs had used to worship their gods. Mexico’s National Palace is another structure that surrounds the …
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 …
President Nixon photographed through a window explaining release of edited transcripts, April 29, 1974

Will There Be a Last Nixon Cover-Up?

… White House records soon will be transferred from the National Archives to a library associated with the Nixon … to raise money for libraries to house their records. The National Archives runs the libraries but the foundations … out his records, but they lost in court. The law handed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) a clear …
US propaganda leaflet used in Afghanistan, with bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Fighting a Cold War Against Osama bin Laden

… concluded that the United States should focus on the Soviet Union’s capabilities, not its intentions. He argued that … Acheson had adopted a hard-headed attitude recognizing international relations as power politics. Acheson’s sage advice …
Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon and Deng Xiaoping during the state dinner for the Vice Premier of China

The Nixon-Deng Comparison

… Marxism-Leninism. Nixon never wavered in believing that the Soviet Union was the major Communist state to be feared and a great … an outgrowth of his attachment to a particular vision of nationalistic Leninism. Deng was convinced that the main …
The World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001

The War on Terror

… the biggest questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source … his initiation of support for Afghan militants, resisting Soviet pressure and presence in Afghanistan, that … pretty important hand in this sequence, by fueling the anti-Soviet war of the of the 1980s and then walking away from …
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.

These Machines Know Too Damn Much

… and easily accessible. Thomas J. Watson’s company, the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), was eager to … up with a solution: Congress should fund the creation of a National Data Center that would centralize all the … whether it wanted to admit it or not, now had a de facto national database, the thing Congress had rejected twenty …