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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. …
Tanks rolling off a German assembly line in 1943

The Nature of World War II

… was a war of thousands of guns, tanks, and planes—a “gross national product war” according to one historian.  It was a … seep into the basements of unsuspecting families, causing a national scandal. The 1941 dumping of  toxic substances into Love Canal turned into a national scandal in the 1970s after unsuspecting citizens …
French demonstrators with purple signs that read "ras le viol"

Violence Against Women

… are women facing extra threats during warfare and international conflicts? But again, looking at this internationally, how have definitions of violence against women … what is the relationship of the police in the US or internationally to this topic? And maybe Peggy, if you'd like to …
American soldiers salute while in formation in 1977.

Time to Ask and Tell!

… election of 1948, and it had a profound impact on the national conversation about race. It seems obvious today …
General George S. Patton waving to crowds in Los Angeles, California in 1945.

Pragmatic de-Baathification is Key to Rebuilding Iraq

… for maintaining society. The exiles led by the Iraqi National Congress simply do not have enough personnel at … 1067) as long as there was a very real threat from the Soviet Union. The United States did not want to see Saddam Hussein …
"The Magnet Citizenship" March 1917 cartoon by Henry Mayer - Moving Picture Weekly (1915-1920)

U.S. Citizenship Is Based on Principles, Not Heritage

… Statement, Youth for Western Civilization, Tom Tancredo, national chair   Former Colorado Congressman Tom Tancredo … comparative politics at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver. … Lynn Holland … …
Computers utilized by U.S. Navy personnel in 1998.

What the Internet Will Bring Us

… bear on people’s lives in new and remarkable ways. When the Union Pacific met up with the Central Pacific at Promontory …
In 2014, the debate about the underlying causes of "long, hot summers" remerged with the high-profile police killings of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, and others.

Long Hot Summers and Separate Societies

Review of Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon (New York: Basic Books, 2018)
… and the inequality it produced, caused of the riots. The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… firm Whitaker and Baxter with the purpose to malign the national health insurance. They came up with the phrase … believed that this policy would be the first step towards national health insurance, Medicare would start an … and that is to say that those people who are an advocate of national health program of one sort or another think health …
book cover - Helmut Walser Smith, The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Anti-Semitism in a German Town

Top Ten Origins: Summer 2019 Must Reads

… experiences, and to show how diary keeping became a way for Soviet citizens to understand their place in a society in … compared Cold War “nuclear cities” in the U.S. and Soviet Union), Brown focuses mainly on the everyday people effected … to ongoing weapons testing and nuclear programs, and international organizations, such as the World Health …
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist

(Bicycle) Wheels of Change

Review of The Cycling City: Bicycles and Urban America in the 1890s, by Evan Friss (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015)
… joined together for bicycle safety.  One of the great national debates on the status of cycles and their place in … was useful in demonstrating how the “cycling city” was a national phenomenon, the addition of examples from other …
Group of people wearing masks

Going Viral: COVID Conspiracies in Historical Perspective

How do conspiracy theories of the past compare with current ones?
… As national governments and the global scientific community … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.   … How do conspiracy …
President George W. Bush sitting at his desk in 2001.

Social Security: False Crisis, Destructive Solutions

… Security system in 20 years, the president addressed the National Association of Realtors, the largest political … He insists that private retirement accounts would increase national savings and, in turn, boost investment and economic … and programs that help people survive and ensure national progress are cut rather than strengthened. Were he …