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Eight women in US politics

Women in American Politics

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … the inner sanctum of the Obama administration, the security team, watching the footage from the attempt to kill Osama … this can close the lid on the idea in our country that the ultimate symbol of women in America is how they look. And …
"The Bosses of the Senate" (1889). Reformers like the cartoonist Joseph Keppler depicted the Senate as controlled by the giant moneybags, who represented the nation's financial trusts and monopolies.

The Dreary Science Meets Politics

… market will take care of everything. This economic formula was fashioned most thoroughly by economist Milton … They have imagined that era as a golden age of free-market competition and laissez-faire government.  Many of these … Rangers, Bush profited handsomely because the value of the team increased dramatically when a new stadium was built. …
Soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad

Stalingrad at 75, the Turning Point of World War II in Europe

… of the Second World War began. More than four million combatants fought in the gargantuan struggle at Stalingrad … the central plaza of Stalingrad, 1943. Fourteen months before Stalingrad began, Hitler had launched Operation … Nazad!” [Not One Step Backwards!]. This meant a horrific price for the Soviet defenders within the city of …
King Capital, caricature by the Slovenian graphic artist and illustrator Hinko Smrekar (first half of the 20th century).

Why Business Loves Laissez Faire

… market will take care of everything. This economic formula was fashioned most thoroughly by economist Milton … They have imagined that era as a golden age of free-market competition and laissez-faire government.  Many of these … Rangers, Bush profited handsomely because the value of the team increased dramatically when a new stadium was built. …
Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol

Six Days That Shook The World

Review of The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East, by Guy Laron (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017)
… and Egypt in the 1950s and 1960s created the conditions for military coups and for administrations that deemed the application of force a welcome distraction from domestic problems. At the same time, … offensive mindset—“Rabin’s Schlieffenplan,” (145) as Laron coins it in pointed allusion. Rabin's "Schlieffenplan:" an …
Various sedimentary rock strata are visible in many areas of Badlands National Park.

Ten Moments of Insight in America’s National Parks

… the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … at the base than at the top. Brilliant mathematics is the ultimate source of the splendor of this futuristic, yet … (and the only one outside of Alaska) that truly demands visitors be self-reliant. It also demands something more …
Mosul Grand Mosque in 2007

Bush Needs War — FAST

… UN weapons inspectors be given months or even a year to complete further investigations in that country, President George W. Bush appears eager for quick military action. His resistance to a delay springs … rattling his saber in the direction of Saddam Hussein, oil prices shot up 46%. They surged again in the past few weeks …
American W84 warhead from the 1980s.

Nuclear Arms Control – Now, More than Ever

… to terrorist groups. Yet what hasn’t changed is the need for the United States to provide leadership in enhancing … weapons. A breakthrough on this critical issue could come as part of an overall commitment toward deeper, … on arms control as an integral aspect of preventing the ultimate catastrophe, a terrorist nuclear strike. William …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… In November 2018, a report commissioned by French President Emannuel Macron called for artifacts taken to France during the heyday of European … of Native American remains by American museums to the complicated provenance of Greek and Roman antiquities held … Steven Conn:   But I think it's also fair to say, what we ultimately wind up fighting about in specific examples tends …
People celebrating anniversary of the revolution in Mashhad in 2014.

Iran: Still Struggling toward Self-Determination

For the Bush administration, its conflict with Iran began … even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to be more … The United States, as a result, has been paying a heavy price. The current nuclear stand-off between Iran and the …
With running mate Paul Ryan in Norfolk, Virginia, during the vice presidential selection announcement on August 11, 2012

Vice Presidential Nominees Must Be Plausible As President

… or on appealing to independents? Some of those factors may come into play, yet the recent history of vice-presidential … selection suggests that the key requirement for a running mate is whether he or she is presidential.   … Office. Palin did help mobilize the Republican base, but ultimately the choice undermined McCain’s claim to “Put …
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)
… new land and conquered its empires, thus paving the way for Spanish and subsequent European hegemony of the globe … ), the notorious document that the Spanish read to the uncomprehending Indians before seizing their land. These … of a new continent, populated with unknown flora and fauna, ultimately called into question the authority of classical …
President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1967.

How to Intervene and Get Out

… the Dominican capital, to stop what it believed was a communist insurgency there. The action was heavily … hundreds of U.S. paratroopers landed quickly to protect foreigners. A few days later, tens of thousands more joined … Dominican politics better than he did. In Iraq, the Bush team, and the president especially, have yet to admit any …
A red AIDS ribbon outlined in candles

The Global History of HIV

… Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … River watershed and movements in that area. A time when steamboats and paddle boats took, came on the Congo River to …
Vicente Fox Quesada

Will Fox be a Mexican Jefferson?

… U.S. military interventions, the PRI, the Spanish acronym for the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party, has … as the sole arbiter of labor and political issues. The concomitant opening of the markets hurt several domestic giants … parts of Mexico, and assembled a professional and competent team of advisers. The one-time Coca-Cola executive projected …
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family

Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America

Review of Masters of the Middle Waters: Indian Nations and Colonial Ambitions Along the Mississippi, by Jacob F. Lee (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019)
… worlds around the politics of kinship diplomacy. Well before the arrival of Europeans, Indigenous peoples and … his reader back to a Middle America before Europeans, as commercial and military power shifted between Mississippian … as an imperial battleground squarely in Native America and ultimately controlled by Native nations and communities. Lee …
Last Supper By Simon Ushakov, 1685

Reverence and Relics: The Holy Dead in the Pre-Modern Christian World

Review of Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation, by Robert Bartlett (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013)
… the cult of the saints and provided new models in the form of the holy abbot. Bartlett next moves into a … were an obvious denominational marker. “Part Two: Dynamics” comprises the bulk of the book. In chapters five through … cult of heroes and the tomb-shrines of Jews and Muslims. Ultimately, he concludes that the differences outweigh any …
Pieter Bruegel the Elder's 1562 painting "The Triumph of Death" depicts the turmoil Europe experienced as a result of the plague.

The Black Death and its Aftermath

… plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis , persisted for centuries in wild rodent colonies in Central Asia and, … came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … the stage for the rise of stronger national identities and ultimately for the Reformation that split Christianity in …
Man Celebrating Repeal Day with a banner that says "Good Old Days Are Back Again!"

Celebrating Repeal with a Drink, Not a Joint

… that was happening anyway, since wealthier drinkers could afford to stockpile liquor before the 18th Amendment took … legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons …
This stamp features the first stanza of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Concord Hymn."

The “Shot Heard Round the World”: April 19, 1775 and the American Revolutionary War

… Road.” In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson , provided what has become the enduring description of the Revolutionary War when … didn’t last long, the fight over its meaning continued for a good deal longer. This stamp features the first stanza … for example, was, “An Army of One,” despite the fact that teamwork is vital to military success. So, who fired the …
Medical examination photo of Gordon showing his scourged back, widely distributed by Abolitionists to expose the brutality of slavery. From at least the 1860s onwards, photography was a powerful tool in the abolitionist movement.

Can Reparations Heal the Wounds of Slavery?

… elsewhere indicate that the slavery lawsuit could become an invaluable tool for bridging the racial divide in America.   It's doubtful … such a discussion may encourage policy makers (and ultimately, the public) to agree on a number that will at … History News Service …