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President Gerald Ford in 1975.

The Forgotten Virtues of Gerald Ford

… political opponents, angered many Americans and gouged deep national wounds. The Vietnam War bitterly divided the … eloquent inaugural address, declaring that “our long national nightmare is over.” Three days after taking office, …
John Quincy Adams.

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

… diplomats and their allies, even as they threatened U.S. national security. Ultimately, it would take the … posts as money-makers, even when this conflicted with U.S. national security, as in the case of the trans-Atlantic … United States … U.S. Laws and Legislation … Diplomacy/International Relations … WikiLeaks Reveals a Professionalism of …
The Palins and McCains in Fairfax, Virginia, September 2008.

Why the Sarah Palin Gamble Didn’t Pay Off

… and able Senate leader who has performed well in the national spotlight. Obama’s carefully considered selection … quickly demonstrated that she possessed little knowledge of national and international issues.   Even conservative columnists criticized …
The Statue of Liberty in New York City.

Where Will “Liberation” Lead?

… dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate property and open diplomatic relations … up to overthrow them. Yet that bastion of communism, the Soviet Union, a few years later turned toward the liberal reforms …
The ship Ile de Sein laying fiber-optic cable off the west coast of Canada, 2007.

From the Transatlantic Telephone to the iPhone

… long-distance communication really begins with the Western Union post-diggers who laid the first American … in some ways dated back to the telegraphic age of Western Union in the 1860s) to help construct a new communication … our world today. … Bart Elmore … Milestones … Global/Transnational … Science & Technology … Internet … Atlantic … From …
Woodrow Wilson in 1911.

The Peril of Absolute Power

… argued that only a balance of power among states, the international equivalent of checks and balances, would preserve … leaders and diplomats once celebrated: the idea of an international order premised on law. Law protects the weak who … what would become the League of Nations, to adjudicate international conflicts according to higher principles. Americans …
Riot police officers in Kyiv, December 2013

A Postcard from Kyiv: A Year of Reckoning for Ukraine

… tensions between Russia and the United States/European Union that are reminiscent of the darkest of Cold War days. … a similar question after World War II. He was a critic of National Socialism at the dawn of Hitler's career. In …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… occupation or annexation. But there were movements for national independence in the region. And the ultimate goal … that's not just here in the Balkans, but also in the international media. And all of this has had been in the works … Serbs in the region view him even more now as a defender of national interest, and also a defender against foreign …
Senator J. William Fulbright in 1966.

Advice from the Past about Yugoslavia

… war during the Cuban missile crisis. Fortunately, he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev negotiated a solution to … the Vietnam War was a civil war, that “the most effective nationalist movement is communist-controlled,” and that the …
The Trojan Nuclear Plant in 1973.

The Atomic Age

… megawatts, which is not even one-tenth of what the International Atomic Energy Agency forecast back in 1974.  … and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the Cold War. And that …

Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… slave trade. As borders were redrawn and a new international order sewn, some fourteen million displaced … Briefly allies in the war, the United States and the Soviet Union competed for laborers and looked to eastern Europe, …

American Presidential Scandals

… between Trump and Russia extend as far back as the late Soviet era. Previously, the most outlandish and perplexing … the Tammany Hall political machine in New York City and the national Jeffersonian Republican coalition , and as a result … five men were arrested in the offices of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex , while …
An unidentified U.S. Marine Corps corporal fires his weapon at a wounded, unarmed Iraqi lying on the floor of a gutted mosque in Fallujah, Nov. 13, 2004. by Kevin Sites found on NPR.org

Shooting the Wounded: What Are the Rules Now?

… case. Recent images from Abu Ghraib and Fallujah offend the national sense of decency. While there are always those who … only strengthen the insurgency and bring down more international outrage. The United States is faced with a … stronger and put the United States in violation of international law. Or the armed forces can continue to fight …
President George W. Bush in 2004.

Bush: Gaining on James Buchanan for Last Place

… The recent Republican National Convention presented George W. Bush’s presidency as … James Buchanan, who warmed the president’s chair while the Union disintegrated in his term (1857-61). The Civil War was … people. •  Insulted and ridiculed other nations and international organizations and then found it necessary to go, …
Logo of General Motors.svg

The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors

… significant share of the largest corporations at the time, national banks. They did so for two reasons. First, it was a … from bankers about government involvement in banks, early national banking corporations turned out to be hugely … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …
Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains

Why the Great Plains Are Dying

… limits, restrain our use of resources, and re-imagine our national aspirations so that they were more environmentally …
Black women marching with signs supporting integration

Race in the Classroom: Teaching Civil Rights

… in our previous podcast, “ Putting Race on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum .” ( Image Source ) … Leticia …   In part two of the show, Dr. Kevin Boyle, author of the National Book Award winning "Arc of Justice" will join us to … conversation, as Stephanie and I were having about the National Civil Rights Museum. I mean, one of the things that …
Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington DC.

Bicentennial for Two Great Emancipators

… on the American frontier.   They also came to international attention at virtually the same moment. Darwin … slavery. As the war began, Lincoln believed that saving the Union, not abolishing slavery, was the cause worth fighting … to see that ending slavery was the only way to save the Union without making a mockery of the nation’s founding …
DC Police Car in the snow

A Long View of Policing in America

… protests against police violence once again to the national stage. In this event's, aftermath, questions … included political radicals, labor organizers, you know, Union advocates, those types of groups. In the early 20th …
The remains of the crash of TWA Flight 5 in 1931 [Photo from the Kansas Historical Society]

Top Ten Origins: Aviation Disasters that Improved Safety

… air crashes until the creation of the independent National Transportation Safety Board in 1967. 3. The … No cause was ever determined. Then on February 11, 1952, a National Airlines DC-6, crashed less than two minutes after … crash led to the temporary closure of Newark Airport. The National Airlines DC-6, 1952. Following the crash of a …
Maurycy Gottlieb - Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur.

Yom Kippur: A First Step to Peace

… rebuild it has become a rallying point for far-right Jewish nationalists, who are willing to desecrate the sacred … took on new meanings that reflected this tension between national solidarity and moral sensitivity. The Zionist … all Jewish holidays) as a way to reinforce sentiments of national solidarity. The religious meaning of the day became …
Family members of U.S. Army Master Sgt. Woodrow Wilson Keeble attending his Medal of Honor ceremony.

Honoring Native American Veterans This Veterans Day

… Last June a caravan of cars pulled into the Black Hills National Cemetery near Sturgis, S.D., to lay a legendary … lessons in early Indian history, arts and crafts, and the national tragedies of the 19th century. This is important …
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.

Capturing a Moment

Review of The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson (New York: Basic Books, 2012)
… to social change, in the White House. Patterson finds the national mood upbeat as LBJ trounced Barry Goldwater in late … protestors attempting to march to the state capitol gained national media attention and galvanized Johnson’s push for a … agenda on race, distancing himself from Moynihan’s call for national action and turning his attention to an anticrime …