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Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

Canada 150: Coming Home

… the extremes of income and regional inequality that have plagued the US and did so through a series of political …

The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia Book Cover

The Old World Meets the Neolithic Age

Review of The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Ages of Columbus, by David Abulafia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008)

Mr. Professor by Joan Carlsson, Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0

Needed: A New Deal for Academics

Reframing the Debate on Human Rights in China

Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

A New Deal Prescription for Gordon Gekko

"We the People" Inscription located on the facade of the National Constitution Center.

How Europe Might Learn from American Constitution-Making

September 17: The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War

Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.

Not Only Action but Accountability

Top Ten Contested Political Conventions

President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.

Marking a Tragic Anniversary

Drawing/wood engraving of the state capitol of Illinois at Springfield.

Can Illinois Again Lead by (Bad) Example?

Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' idealized 1900 depiction of (left to right) Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson of the Committee of Five working on the Declaration.

Stealing the First Amendment from the People

Iraq's 1920 Revolution

Floor proceedings of the U.S. Senate, in session during the impeachment trial of Bill Clinton

Uneasy Lies the Head that Sleeps in the White House

Portrait of Neville Chamberlain, who was the Prime Minister of United Kingdom during the early months of World War II.

Lessons of Munich

Blending Empathy and Justice

… the constitutional concept of equal protection with moral meaning informed by empathy. Similarly, in 1967, the …

WikiLeaks Reveals a Professionalism of Recent Vintage in the History of American Diplomacy

General George S. Patton waving to crowds in Los Angeles, California in 1945.

Pragmatic de-Baathification is Key to Rebuilding Iraq

… resources at its disposal. The inability of the well-meaning but militarily powerless government of Hamid Karzai …

Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis

A teacher and her students in an elementary school classroom.

When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right

… lies in its establishment of a constitutional right to a meaningful education. Ever since the 1840s, when the United …

The West Virginia State Penitentiary electric chair, also known as "Old Sparky."

The Truth About Capital Punishment: It’s Inherently Cruel

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