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An Honored Medal: 1862-1896 Version of the Medal of Honor. Army Heritage Museum Collection.

Medal of Honor Upgrades Are Rare — And Should Be Rare

… secretary Robert Gates — to review the War on Terror's combat decoration recipients and upgrade some to the Medal … He dragged the dead and wounded into the chopper. It lifted off to retrieve the second group, with Benavidez running … and shrapnel wounds received in that six-hour battle. Gen. William Westmoreland presented the Distinguished Service …
The Rodina crew. Left to right: Polina Osipenko, Valentina Grizodubova, and Marina Raskova.

The Rodina Flight

The Remarkable Story of the Women’s Non-Stop Long-Distance Flight Record
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 … Most recent presidential candidates have recognized that good politics, as well as good governance, requires choosing … her maverick image–without imagining her in the Oval Office. Palin did help mobilize the Republican base, but …
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States.

Zealous Moderates: Barack Obama and William Howard Taft

… season brings a new round of presidential analogies and comparisons. Two years into his presidency, Barack Obama has … mentioned: William Howard Taft, an Ohio Republican who held office from 1909 to 1913. Like him, Obama has emerged as a … the largest man ever to occupy the office–at over 300 pounds–Taft presented a small, almost passive persona in …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

… in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … to reclaim the values of the Luddites and the lessons they offer us. Who Were the Luddites? A brotherhood of … attacked threshing and other agricultural machines of the 1830s rallied under the banner of “Captain Swing,” in what …
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.

Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate

… have peace on earth, prepare for war in space." As he takes office, we should demand a public debate on his favorite … which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying … boasts that it can develop computerized satellites that will tell U.S. commanders everything that is happening, at …

The Second Amendment Goes to Court

… of future discussions of gun control for decades to come. It might even have an impact on the dynamics of the … crime of transporting and possessing an unregistered sawed off shotgun, in violation of the National Firearms Act, 26 … People peaceably to assemble, and consult for their common good, and to apply to the Government for a redress of …
poster supporting those lost in Pearl Harbor

Mobilizing for Common Purpose in the COVID Era

… Just how has American society mobilized for a sense of common purpose in the past? And why have we seemed to lose … both in Congress and in the country at large, in the late 1930s, but he moved slowly, taking one step at a time, and by … on the floor of the Senate, then adjourn together to his office to drink bourbon and branch water. Since the time …
Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Distorts the Founders’ Religious Views

… Islamic rather than Christian, the controversy still offered hope that Americans of different faiths – or of no … citizens to celebrate this week,” she indicated that no comparable proclamations for, say, Alaska’s Jews or Muslims … in terms of tolerance of diverse faiths were Roger Williams’s Rhode Island and William Penn’s Pennsylvania. …
French troops under Charles VIII entering Florence, 1494.

The Blood Behind the Beauty

Review of The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West, by Catherine Fletcher (New York City: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… Brutal violence is not typically the first thing that comes to mind when observing the artwork of the … in military capacities not only as artists. A particularly good example of this can be found in chapter five, where … for military men (whether they be common foot soldiers or officers) to record their own impressions and experiences …
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea

… force, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. But rather than backing off the United States committed itself to war. In the case of North Korea, though, … defused their fear and earned decades of international good will. The cost of humanitarian aid to North Korea will
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao in 2005.

Written With the Blood of Miners

… of the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … incident (362 dead miners). Federal regulators and mine officials like to point to the broad trend toward improved …
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.

Russia’s Trial by Fire

Review of Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War 1914-1921, by Laura Engelstein Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
… Russia’s first attempt at Revolution in 1905, Engelstein offers thoughtful analysis of the Great War, 1917, and the … In February 1917 , the legacy of collective militancy combined with general economic crisis to produce a general … Engelstein provides a thoughtful narration of events and it will appeal to both specialists in the field of Russian …
Rick Santorum at prayer, 2012

Rick Santorum and Fundamentalist Catholicism

… is loose in the land, according to Santorum, and he has offered himself as the only man capable of exorcising the … in the polls among GOP voters precisely because he is so comfortable mixing politics and religion. He presents a … Catholicism which insists on the “teaching authority” of bishops and popes — has just as much contempt for Protestants. …
St. Catherine of Siena depicted on a wood panel.

Speaking Truth to Catholic Power

… of a panel of lay Roman Catholics appointed by the bishops to oversee their handling of the church’s sex abuse … scandal. Frustrated by a few unrepentant prelates, Keating compared their conspiratorial behavior to that of the Mafia. … “To resist grand jury subpoenas, to suppress the names of offending clerics, to deny, to obfuscate, to explain away; …
Image of a large turkey on a postcard from the early 1900s.

The First “First Thanksgiving”

… sauce and baked yams, then finished the whole thing off with a big slice of pumpkin pie. That was our very first … the first Thanksgiving occurred on the Rio Grande on April 30, 1598, four centuries ago, a few miles downstream from … Thanksgiving.” For 136 years, Thanksgiving has been a day commemorated across America. It gives us a moment to recall …
These false killer whales were part of an MSE in Flinders Bay, Australia, July of 1986.

Washed Ashore: Marine Mammals from Medieval Times to Today

… by a local religious leader, and tied to ropes and anchors off the bay, left to decompose within the ecosystem. Europeans who lived in the … of a single whale or monster they can fill between 250 and 300 carts. After they have put the meat and fat into vast …
Joseph Ambrose, an 86-year-old World War I veteran, attends the dedication day parade for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in 1982. Wearing a doughboy uniform like the ones used during the war, he is holding an American flag. It covered the casket of his son Clement, who was killed in the Korean War.

Tributes of Silence, the Honor of Words

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which … graves of the Union dead on November 19, 1863. “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,” he … range of political views, despite what candidates for office might sometimes imply. When pressed, most would …
Protesters during day 14 of Occupy Wall Street

"Class Warfare" in American History

… Politics." Thanks for being on the show Sarah, and welcome.  Sarah Siff   My pleasure. Thanks.  Patrick Potyondy   … movement really picked up on this idea. So people like William F. Buckley and Robert Taft started using this … necessarily that you're the bad guy anymore. You can be the good guy like Teddy Roosevelt when he said, I'm in this …
KKK members displaying the Nazi salute and Holocaust denial signs.

Facing Anti-Semitism and American History

… Americans to reexamine their past as well. Austria has become something of a pariah state because its governing … as sympathetic to Nazi ideals. Part of Austria's Nazi past will also be unearthed in the coming weeks in the trial of … property and the use of Jews as slave laborers during the 1930s and '40s, but on the whole they have been able to shift …
Chinese manufactured goods, like this jar from the Ming dynasty, were highly desired trade items.

Borne by the Waves: The Ocean’s Role in Global Trade

Review of The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans, by David Abulafia (Oxford University Press, 2019)
… are addressed, this work is not focused on ecological communities or human impact on marine habitats . Rather, … Later, Oman benefitted from facilitating the transport of goods between European colonies in India and Indonesia and … networks at this time, with Denmark existing as a drop-off point for Chinese and Indian goods, which were then …

Killing the Arctic

… patterns in the south, Arctic meteorology has increasingly come to affect them. The Arctic’s terminal decline, then, … Smeerenburg emerged as a fleshy El Dorado, complete with shops, bakeries, and even a casino and brothel. Smoke … centered on the famed Kiruna mines and the consequent 300-mile Malmbanen railroad. Commercial mining of …