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Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

… and sought terms with the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (National Liberation Front [FLN]). In their eyes, peace was … of their ability to win support among the masses to a nationalist movement that had succeeded not only in gaining …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… the broadcast industry was dominated by four networks: the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the Columbia … model served as a cautionary tale of what not to do. The National Broadcasting Corporation's first logo in 1943 ( top … media reform movement as coalitions composed of labor unions, civil rights organizers, civil libertarians, …
Glass negative of Woodrow Wilson from the Library of Congress.

Television Biography: History Lite

… differences? By 1912, Roosevelt was delineating his New Nationalism. He called for aggressive government action, … figures responding not only to private, but to local, national and global influences. The "American Experience" …
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 …
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 …
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments

The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments

… the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the New York Times  … when they were accidentally discovered in 2010. The U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Sanitary … need to be continually re-examined and enforced (even when national security is raised as the justification). Also, …
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 …
Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.

The Draft — for Democracy

… Vietnam-era draft, which all would agree fell short as a national policy. The draft system of the 1960s and 1970s … connections, such as George W. Bush, snatched up scarce National Guard commissions that enabled them to avoid the … II, despite segregation. And Irish Americans served in the Union army in high numbers during theÝ Civil War, even …
a man standing on a large bomb

Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb

… feuds culminate in a lone U.S. plane flying low over the Soviet countryside, determined to drop its nuclear payload onto a Soviet military base. They succeed, and in doing so set off … entendre “Merkin Muffley,” has a relationship with the Soviet Premier less befitting two world leaders and more …
Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate

Buying American Elections?

… discussion is this: do huge bags of money really affect national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more … work on election day. We could say this one lasts until, national level 1880s, 90ish, local state level longer than … brief period of time, beginning in the mid-70s, when in the national level, there was a kind of a Rube Goldberg …