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President Eisenhower in Holland in 1951.

Will the United States Start a New Nuclear Arms Race?

… A secret and sudden attack with nuclear weapons: It’s the most horrific threat facing the United States. Yet when President Bush outlined his administration’s plan for … of Eisenhower’s policy against nuclear proliferation was a test ban treaty. U.S. nuclear tests were suspended …
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?

… Once again, disturbing images are surfacing from the war in Iraq, this time of a young Marine shooting a … to sign the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war. When the Viet Cong in the 1970s and the Iraqis in 1990 … Americans in front of television cameras, the nation was appalled. Despite urging from some quarters, the United …
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Joseph Smith Discovers the Gold Plates

… to have happened to him on September 21, 1823. According to the traditional narrative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smith was visited that night by an angel who told him of an … lived in the Americas two millennia prior. Years later, when he eventually took possession of the plates, he …
Fidel Castro in 1959

Easing Up on Cuba

… After opening a few small holes in the U.S. embargo of Cuba, President Clinton has taken flak … people more, as embargoes tend to do. Back in the 1960s, when Castro presented a real security threat to the United States, Washington had few weapons to oppose him. Relations had been …
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.

A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund

The sudden threat to the Social Security trust fund offers … A sinking fund is a kind of governmental savings account. When a government undertakes a project — a subway, for … were heavily in debt. Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s secretary of the treasury, proposed that the
Theatrical poster for the American release of the 1952 film High Noon

War with Iraq: The Movie

… In speeches about the urgency of attacking Iraq, President Bush has described … of danger. Sheriff Gary Cooper, alone, stands up to fight. When Cooper dispatches the desperadoes, the nervous … “High Noon” informed the typical Spaghetti Western. There was so much murder and mayhem in the films that the
Celebrations for Jamaican Independence, 2012.

Jamaican Independence

… On August 6, 1962, the island of Jamaica became an independent nation, making … but tallawah island (“small but mighty” in Jamaican ) was one triumph in the long history of Black sovereignty and … the Caribbean. Jamaica had been a Spanish colony until 1655 when Britain launched the Western Design, an expedition …
A view of the World Trade Center in New York City

Responding to Terror: No Good Choices

… In its brutality and horror, the World Trade Center attack of September 11 outmatched … After two attempts by that army to seize power, the war was finally ended by a precipitate French retreat from North … strike at the United States and its  interests wherever and whenever they could. Ultimately there are no right choices …
book cover of Empire of Cotton - A Global History

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2018 Must Reads

The joy of reading comes in all seasons, but many people … on a range of topics. Some of these books surprised me when I first read them, or I have taught them and have had … Brown tells the history of two of these places, Richland, Washington and Ozersk in the Russian Ural Mountains. Like …

Yearning to Breathe Free: The American Immigration Story

… Twin headlines have repeated across the country over the last several months, warning of labor … rush the journey. They warned their clients that the border was about to open but would quickly “fill up” a quota and … Yet there have been very few moments in American history when migration has not been described in crisis language, …
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War

Crimea: A General Introduction

Review of Crimea: A History, by Neil Kent London: Hurst & Company, 2016.
… Until 2014, Ukraine was a country little known and poorly-understood by many in the West. While the Ukrainian Revolution of February 2014 … range anywhere from seven cited sources to seventy. Even when citations are prevalent, they might make the academic …
The Brazilian flag and a soccer ball

Brazil’s Soccer Mania: An Example for the World

The Brazilians’ victory in this year’s World Cup in soccer … evident in the time of military dictatorship (1964-1985) when many forms of political expression were illegal. In … Brazil’s Soccer Mania: An Example for the World …
Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Distorts the Founders’ Religious Views

… Before the selection of Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin, as the … a Christian nation. That hope, however, may be fleeting. When, last fall, Gov. Palin declared October 21-27 to be Alaska’s “Christian Heritage Week,” she was not merely issuing the kind of routine, pro-forma …
a man standing on a large bomb

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

… January 24 th , 2014, is the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic … has remained oddly relevant to our modern day. In an era when the United States still has troops fighting all over … specific time and gained particular resonance because it was released so soon after the Cuban Missile crisis put the
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume

Coming to America to Contribute

Review of Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century, by Robert L. Fleegler Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013
… on this current debate, and reminds us that we’ve had these fights before. Ellis Island Nation: Immigration Policy … 1924, coming largely from eastern and southern Europe. This was the population that came through Ellis Island and other … established their young son’s American identity. When World War I ended, concern over the loyalty of new …
Pope Leo XIV in the popemobile at his inauguration, 2025.

Faith, History, and the City of God in the 21st Century

… As Pope Leo XIV takes the helm over 1.4 billion  Catholics  worldwide, consider … his namesake Leo XIII. Reigning from 1878 to 1903, Leo XIII was renowned for his worldly activism.  The former Robert … Rerum novarum — On Capital and Labor —depicted society whenthe enormous fortunes of some few individuals, and the
Print depicting the USS Olympia firing on the Spanish fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898.

Top Ten Origins: Puerto Rico and the United States

… Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little many Americans understand … fleet during the Battle of Manila Bay on May 1, 1898. When the dust kicked up by Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders … Partido Popular Democrático (PPD, Popular Democratic Party) was founded in 1938. Though it grew out of earlier movements …
Reagan in 1982.

Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?

… Saving the Union by defeating the Confederate army and being … occupied the Oval Office since the first, Abraham Lincoln, was elected in 1860. Now, like the relatives nobody wants at … and “Uncle Warren” Harding, and “Rutherfraud” B. Hayes. But when was the last time you heard some Republican politician …