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Wartime poster. Canada. The Bureau of Public Information was created in September 1939 to disseminate information about Canada’s war policies.

Can the New Administration Keep Canada as an Ally in Afghanistan?

… South Africa, he claimed, Ottawa could maximize its international influence. Together, he argued, the Commonwealth …   Nonetheless, Halifax’s public comments ignited a national political crisis. Left-leaning Canadian nationalists, most of whom lived in French-speaking Quebec …
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.

Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina

… the 150th anniversary of the state's secession from the Union.  Hundreds of people, many decked out in hoop skirts … raged in Charleston since 1865.   When the city fell to the Union army that year, local freedpeople staged public …  African Americans in Charleston also built a cemetery for Union soldiers who had died as prisoners of war, and they …
State of Israel Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, pictured during a defense meeting held at the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia (DC).

Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?

… the worst excesses of McCarthyism. De Klerk came from a National Party apparatus that had cracked down on … the Chinese (and pursue the subsequent detente with the Soviets) without such fears. His record as an ardent Cold … motives. Similarly, only a staunch member of South Africa’s National Party, the party that had implemented and perfected …
People celebrating anniversary of the revolution in Mashhad in 2014.

Iran: Still Struggling toward Self-Determination

… destiny, even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to … Mohammad Mossadegh shocked the world when he moved to nationalize British oil assets. However, the American … Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1953, it was not a move toward Soviet communism, but rather an anti-colonial blow against …
Collier's 1921 Lincoln Abraham - cabinet meeting.jpg

Lincoln’s and Obama’s Teams of Non-Rivals

… the Republican Party and, as it evolved during the war, the Union Party. Some simply disliked or distrusted one another. … more than a year into the war. In December 1862, after the Union’s embarrassing defeat at Fredericksburg, all but one … helped build the Republican Party in his state. He had no national ambitions and his management of the Navy Department …
Portrait of Jane Addams

Million Moms March in Noble Company

… gun violence against children, a modern tragedy and an international embarrassment when one looks at gun deaths in the … conducted politics in the name of motherhood. The international peace movement of that era and the creation of a …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk … of the Cold War Space Race, leaders of the American and Soviet space programs envisioned Mars as humankind’s first … launched and landed Viking spacecraft on Mars, the Soviet Union developed and tested closed life-support systems …
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.

Not Only Action but Accountability

… America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force chaired by … were needed in intelligence methods, in the structure of national security agencies and in government preparation to … stressed that homeland  security is not peripheral to U.S. national security but central to it. Prophetically, the …
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall

Modern China and Its Institutions

Review of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, by Klaus Mühlhahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… to resist the West. Neo-Confucianism would be replaced by nationalist thought, which would bring down the Qing Empire … would carry into the Communist Era. Sun Yat-Sen deified nationalist thought and Chiang Kai-Shek built a strong … that threatened his rule. Mühlhahn points to the Sino-Soviet Split as a crucial moment: it spurred Mao to launch …
Joel Roberts Poinsett on a background of poinsettias.

Poinsettia Day, the Monroe Doctrine, and U.S.-Mexican Relations

… convinced him that the United States should have a national museum to display the expanding government … y Caribeña  (Dec. 2015) Torcuato S. Di Tella,  National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

… society. I just want to give you an example. In 2010, the National Assembly and the Senate of France passed an act … was prevented from taking her oath in the Turkish National Assembly, because she was wearing a headscarf and … a way to move forward after seeing that many of these Arab nationalism and many of these regimes have failed to provide …
Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.

Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima

… the 1950s. A 1958 editorial in William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review took former President Truman to task for his … of having used atomic weapons against civilians. As a 1959 National Review article matter-of-factly stated: "The … the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times change. In recent …
A tractor purchased through the Marshall Plan for France.

Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq

… before the war. Moreover, Western Europe remained safe from Soviet domination and was America’s best trading partner for … not poor. And while Peter Sellers in drag is a preposterous national leader, Saddam Hussein is a seriously murderous … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was one of the bloodiest in history: 8 million people lost their lives in Europe's deadliest religious conflict.

Secularism, Past and Future

Review of Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom, by Andrew Copson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
… 1949, adopted after Gandhi has been assassinated by a Hindu nationalist, enshrined the elements of secularism in law. … particular faith. When the University of Texas surveyed 195 national constitutions from around the world, researchers … are as unexpected as they are frightening. 70 out of 195 national constitutions might be seen as a glass half full, …

Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?

… of the year. In January, the opposition KMT (Kuomintang or Nationalist Party) had won the year's first crushing victory … As a teenager, he studied communism and engineering in the Soviet Union, and married a native Belarusian, who the Chinese …
Egyptian Leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser

Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later

… which he said would usher in a new era of independence and national sovereignty for his country. The British occupation … almost entirely on their ability to assert Egypt’s national aspirations, so a changed relationship with Britain … and politics, but it also has had a long history of nationalism and anti-colonial activism. In early 1950’s, the …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… worked in ways that resembled slavery. This added up to a nationalization of the southern idea that all of those who … state, or selling their labor to manufacturers, became a national phenomenon. Inmates at a Washington State prison … spread to more states. All of the new states added to the union between 1889 and 1912, except Utah, enacted lifelong …