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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?

Review of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, by Mark Lawrence Schrad (New York: Oxford UP, 2014)
… II, the last Romanov tsar, and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet General Secretary, both instituted dry laws and … or spent any time in Russia or its predecessor state, the Soviet Union, instinctively knows much of what Schrad details. I …
Protestors against the U.S. Trump administration voice their commitment to the world's dispossessed.

The Politics of Refugee Aid in America’s “Short Century”

Review of Benevolent Empire: U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed , by Stephen R. Porter Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
… health campaigns in addition to refugee programs), its international posturing often clashed with domestic political … often undercut American rhetoric and even played into Soviet propaganda. Porter demonstrates that the United … political refugees who arrived after a failed 1956 anti-Soviet uprising just in time for an economic recession. …
This painting, which dates from 1859, reimagines the toppling of the equestrian statue of George III in New York City. Erected in 1770, the statue featured the regent garbed in Roman military regalia on horseback, in the fashion of Marcus Aurelius. It is doubtful that Native Americans, women and children were in attendance at this episode of iconoclasm by the Sons of Liberty.

Ten Memorable Monument Takedowns in History

… Gustave Courbet pegged the reconstructed ornament as a “nationalistic symbol of tyranny and militarism.” When the … same to a statue of Christopher Columbus in 1986. 9. Post-Soviet Iconoclasm The Republic of Councils Monument in … statues from Hungary's communist period. Throughout the new Soviet Republics , more than 500 tsarist monuments were …