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Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Is Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery
… protect slavery, Lincoln was compelled to consider the real meaning of his previous warnings that the nation could not …
Coming to America to Contribute
Review of Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Fleegler Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
… phrase to the lexicon. The “melting pot” had a variety of meanings. For some it embraced the contributions that …
From Kulikovo Field to Kursk: Russia’s Forever War
Review of Russia: The Story of War, by Gregory Carleton (Cambridge, MA and London: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2017)
Mendeleev's Periodic Table
… orbiting a nucleus explained some of the anomalies that had plagued the periodic system from the start. The periodic …
"The Greatest Geopolitical Catastrophe of the Century"
Review of The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union, by Serhii Plokhy (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
Restoring the Origins of the First Crusade: A Medieval Chronicle Written in the Twenty-First Century
Review of The First Crusade: The Call from the East, by Peter Frankopan (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
Calling Al-Qaeda Fascist Doesn’t Make It So
… sharply, and these differences render Bushs comparison meaningless in the realm of strategy. For example, Al-Qaeda …
The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board
… The danger is that the same racial stereotypes that once plagued our society will become re-ingrained in the …
The Old Informing the New
Review of Rethinking America: From Empire to Republic, by John M. Murrin (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018)
