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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 …

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).
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 …
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 …
Ruins of Chorrillos after the battle of January 13, 1881. Photograph by Eugene Courret. Glass Plate. National Library of Peru Collection.

The War of the Pacific and the Fate of South America

… control of the Pacific trade routes, and the demarcation of national borders. Previous military conflicts in the region … making it one of the most coveted products in international trade and industry.  This economic activity caused … Quechua to the linguistic diversity of the area. The international economic recession of the 1870s hit the region hard …
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 …
1911 portrait of King George V, ruler of the British Empire.

The Risks of Unilateralism

… Service. … Paul Janson … History News Service … Global/Transnational … United States … United Kingdom … …
Photo from 1890 of the first OSU football team

Taylor Branch on the Crisis of College Sports

… history of the American university system and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In … time that recently you had an effort at Northwestern to unionize players, which is a truly bizarre concept, because … by the NLRB to take a vote on whether they wanted to unionize and as soon as this happened, the whole apparatus …