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Image of Jimmy Carter during his ‘Malaise’ Speech.

Should Obama Deliver Another ‘Malaise’ Speech?

… transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your … to think about the balance between individual wants and common goals.   What was the effect of Carter's speech? Some … a collective goal.   In Iraq and Afghanistan, American soldiers a minority among thheir generation — are fighting two …
From left to right, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Vice President Dick B. Cheney having a working lunch in 2007.

Foreign Policy Doesn’t Need a Mandate

… executive. History suggests that even a president primarily committed to enacting a domestic agenda can achieve significant foreign policy successes. For … capital in launching the New Deal, Roosevelt, before he died in 1945, wrenched America from its isolationist …
An array of non-lethal guns laid out on a table.

Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment

… has taken a dramatic turn. In the midst of the winter holidays, when you could bet that everyone’s mind was elsewhere, … example of politically motivated historical revisionism completes the task begun by John Ashcroft in 2001 in his … novel idea that the preamble of the Second Amendment has no binding force would have certainly shocked the Founders. The …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … and regions for reasons entirely their own, are the foundation upon which the U.S. built and then exported its own … and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs , Dr. Campos studies how Mexico’s anti-drug attitudes, in many ways, predate …

Hong Kong in Protest

… rocked Hong Kong in recent weeks. On World Press Freedom Day in April 2019, members of the Hong Kong Journalists … returned home but evaded murder charges because he committed the crime outside of Hong Kong’s jurisdiction. He … its window to the outside world. Cover of Worker-Peasant-Soldier Pictorial magazine in 1970, during the Great …
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.

Work and Life after COVID-19

… or laid off or have had to work in the increasingly dangerous “real world.” MTA digital message campaign … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 … working remotely as they were banded together in an office. Companies might therefore continue to allow employees to …
A manuscript image of Pope Innocent IV excommunicating Emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon.

Medieval Public Relations Battles

Review of The Two Powers: The Papacy, The Empire, and the Struggle for Sovereignty in the Thirteenth Century, by Brett Edward Whalen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
… The medieval period was full of confrontations between the dual … documents written to persuade the public, Whalen uncovers a communications battle between the papacy and the Holy Roman … Both regions were politically volatile, and at various points in the conflict many of the city-states and regions …
A Sea Fight with Barbary Corsairs by Laureys a Castro, c. 1681

Hostage Taking in Algeria Is a 200-Year-Old Story

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … who joined the remnants of the earlier group (some had died or been released earlier). Not until 1796 did the new … — contributed to public pressure on the Washington and Adams administrations to do something.   Widespread public …
The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River

A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia

… to take a break from Belgrade for a weekend vacation to Djerdap National Park. As one park guide put it, Djerdap proved … park can enjoy and reflect these legacies too, while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is … site revealed roughly 136 structures, including a central community with several temporary surrounding settlements. …
Scene in Ukraine

Ukraine, In a Nutshell

Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
… He begins with such vital questions like “What is the Maidan, and what made it top news around the world?”, “How and … the reader.   The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests.  December 2013. As current news broadcasts and websites talk of the plight of today’s Crimean Tartars, many …
The Senate's side of the U.S. Capitol Building.

The Framers vs. Sen. Frist

… needed for decisions we’re stuck with. The Framers weren’t comfortable with slender majorities when the nation’s … representatives needed to make a decision that would bind the nation for a long time. They believed that a higher … won’t do for such consequential business. Setting fundamental and permanent rules of government requires an even …
The original Star-Spangled Banner is on view at the National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

Grace Wisher: The Black Girl Who Helped Stitch the Star-Spangled Banner

… In the conventional telling of the story, Pickersgill, her daughter Caroline, and one of her nieces all receive … Three years into Grace’s apprenticeship, Pickersgill was commissioned to create the Star-Spangled Banner in … role in the establishment of the United States. Their bodies were relied upon for the continuation of the …
Kagan, Obama, and Roberts before her investiture ceremony, October 1, 2010.

How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice

… Obama when he suggested that empathy was an important ingredient in a justice. In fact, the president was simply … to the Supreme Court.   T.R. recognized that those who become judges invariably have had close association with … which he has not drawn his clients.”   If anything, Obama’s comment was more neutral than Roosevelt’s. Roosevelt twice …
Book Cover of Americans Against the City: Anti-Urbanism in the Twentieth Century By: Steven Conn

Hot off the Presses: Americans vs. the City

… they have shaped the anti-government politics so strong today.   As Conn describes it, the anti-urban impulse has had … future as well." [Book description from the publisher's website ] …
Cover of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm by Harold James.

Blood and Steel

Review of Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm, by Harold James (Princeton University Press, 2012)
… crimes." 1 Partially as a result, the name Krupp has become synonymous with war profiteering, armaments and the … regime. Harold James' book, Krupp: A History of the Legendary German Firm , offers a new look at the famous German … and was removed from the list of merchants in Essen. 2 He died impoverished two years later. It was his son, Alfried …
The "We Can Do It!" war-propaganda poster from 1943 was re-appropriated as a symbol of the feminist movement in the 1980s.

Which Side Are We On in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom?

… to drive cars. Social and political control over women’s bodies, however, extends well beyond the Islamic world. In … routinely been used as an instrument of war from Bosnia to Darfur. The trafficking of women in sexual slavery is now … of their freedom or with those who control women’s bodies in the service of a larger state agenda? Remember that …
Still image from the Movie The Bridge (Criterion Collection).

Top Ten Origins: World War II Films

… to the claustrophobic atmosphere of Wolfgang Peterson’s Das Boot , films about the Second World War often include … away from the actual events of the war, movies have become the dominant means for us to envision them. But can you … stares in shock at an enormous mound of dead Japanese soldiers. He covers his face, weeps, and runs, trying to avoid …
Chinese nuclear bomb on display in China.

A Danger Shared by All

… one of Bush’s predecessors, Dwight D. Eisenhower: “If a danger exists in the world, it is a danger shared by all.” A … Lyndon Johnson ordered a task force, the Gilpatric Committee (named after its chairman, former deputy defense … to stop nuclear proliferation. According to the Gilpatric Committee, “Energetic and comprehensive steps must be taken …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… Violence against women has a long history in human communities. Yet, we live in a time when people across the … an assistant professor of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies here at The Ohio State University.   Peggy Solic    My … Leticia Wiggins. You can find our podcasts and more at our website, origins.osu.edu, on iTunes and on Soundcloud. And …
 A depiction of the burning of Louisa Mabree, a French midwife and convicted witch, in a cage filled with black cats

The Rise of Freethinkers

Review of The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment , by Michael Hunter (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2020)
… of magic. Belief in magic and magical occurrences was commonplace before the Reformation and persisted long after … Keith Thomas’ 1971 Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth- and … society. Hunter describes this study as “brilliant” but points to its shortcomings, namely that the book does not …
The historic Floyd County Courthouse in Rome, Georgia.

Marcus Dixon or Strom Thurmond: Which Is the Predator?

… sex with a girl who was a few months shy of her 16th birthday. Dixon, who claimed the sex was consensual, is black. … husband when he was nine) declared that her son “may have committed a sin, but never committed a crime,” she unknowingly evoked the flexible … Marcus Dixon or Strom Thurmond: Which Is the Predator? …
Pakistan to US Student Exchange Program, July 2011.

Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well

… world, the more necessary a knowledge of foreign nations becomes. Yet Congress is trying to handicap that endeavor by … to bring one group of experts, those in international studies, under stricter government control. This legislation … funding, investigate grantee activities and make recommendations on how international studies programs “might better …

Erdoğan’s Presidential Dreams, Turkey’s Constitutional Politics

… of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … not only for allegedly having a “secret” Islamist agenda, but also for prosecuting oppositional journalists, … Fundamental Organization Law of 1921 was a temporary expedient intended to facilitate military resistance against the …