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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 … Global/Transnational
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 … Diplomacy/International Relations …
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 ) … now in History Talk is John Mueller, Woody Hayes, chair of national security studies at the Mershon Center for … his initiation of support for Afghan militants, resisting Soviet pressure and presence in Afghanistan, that …
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 …

Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America

… administration announced a plan to limit the reach of the National Environmental Policy Act, which has required … and others in 1964 raft down the Snake River in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming. Burning River: The Cuyahoga … water sources declined. Brandywine Falls in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Ohio, in 2014. While the benefits of the …
The coat of arms of the Republic of Texas from the 19th century.

The Real Republic of Texas

… the Indians, antagonized the Mexicans, ran up a huge national debt, and proved beyond a reasonable doubt that … the real Republic of Texas, said, as he ordered the Texas national flag lowered over the capital and the U.S. flag …
Cover of The Baron's Cloak by William Sunderland.

An Imperial Person

Review of The Baron’s Cloak: A History of the Russian Empire in War and Revolution, by Willard Sunderland (Cornell University Press, 2014).
… affairs. As Russian leaders assert the rights of their co-nationals abroad, they have also looked to strengthen ties … up the vast, diverse world of the former Russian Empire and Soviet Union, but few have produced works as engaging and … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Protesters against the an anti-gay marriage amendment on the 2012 election ballot.

The Gay-Marriage Amendment: A Danger to the Constitution

… figure in the most powerful party. One of the nation’s two nationally elected officials thus became far less … to generate many unintended consequences. Refusing gay unions legal sanction will certainly not prevent the …
President George W. Bush with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley in 2006.

Is Iraq Vietnam?

… both suffers from the same fatal flaw. The publication of National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley’s Nov. 8 memorandum … which he has failed to do towards the Shiite militias. The national security adviser barely considers the more likely …
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen

Such a Disappointment

Review of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… didn’t simply see slavery as a source of increasing national division, but as he grew old he defended the need …

Time It Was: 1968 Around the World

… could command those structures. A button for the Youth International Party, a radical, youth-oriented, countercultural … students, parents, government officials, police officers, union organizers, bystanders, and other witnesses to the … by weakening the iron grip that the Christian-Democratic Union (CDU) had held on the government. Federal Chancellor …
NCAA Basketball championship banners.

The Big Business of “Amateur” Intercollegiate Sports

… John Siegfried have called the “accidental industry”—the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)’s … had passed in the mid-sixties in part because of Soviet criticism of Jim Crow, Title IX was driven by Soviet propaganda about the equal legal rights enjoyed by …
John Trumbull's portrait of Alexander Hamilton.

This Won’t Be the Last Political Sex Scandal

… of private sexual behavior. We’re in the midst of a national discussion about where to draw the line. What most … marriage and monogamy. A few commentators will question our national stance on sex work. Prostitution is not illegal in … always arouse great excitement. Setting aside the true national sex scandals — skyrocketing rates of HIV and STD …
the word History in script

Why Study History?

… and mis-use, of history. Pressing to lift the ban on gay unions, proponents correctly note that interracial marriages … So, advocates argue, history "proves" that bans on same-sex unions are just as bigoted and misguided as the racial … I am personally and profoundly repulsed by bans on same-sex unions. But I don't think that I as an historian can …
Ration distribution point.

The Other War in Pakistan

… Taliban and al-Qaida. Aiding the refugees is clearly in the national interest of the United States.   The United States … be key allies in the Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union. As Secretary of State George C. Marshall said in … Diplomacy/International Relations …
U.S. Marines holding Sandino's Flag - Nicaragua 1932.

The Costs of Intervention

… to broker an agreement between warring political factions. Nationalist Augusto Sandino and his followers rejected the … the country in 1933, Sandino was still at large, but the national guard had come under the control of Anastasio … will be defeated any time soon. At the same time, the national armies we are training could end up being used to …