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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 …
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)
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. … 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 …
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 …
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 …
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)

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 …
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 …