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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 …
"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 …
Seen in 1986 with Ford Island in center. The USS Arizona Memorial is the small white dot on the left side above Ford Island.

Pearl Harbor Myth Poses Dangers

… Just a week after the terrorist attack on the United States, National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice insisted that …
1943 poster for the Allies of World War II--two years before the founding of the United Nations.

The UN Follows the League’s Long Trail to Impotence

… the 1920s and 1930s. By allowing North Korea to flout international nuclear norms, permitting genocide in Darfur, and … proposed the League of Nations as a means to resolve international disputes. The UN was created in 1945 because the … the leadership of the United States created an international coalition that liberated Kuwait in 1991. Similarly, …
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 …

Clampdown and Blowback: How State Repression Has Radicalized Islamist Groups in Egypt

… at the end of December. And in a move that provoked international condemnation, an Egyptian court sentenced 529 … them to take important positions in students’ and workers’ unions and professional organizations. Sadat had three main … the treaty with Israel the Sadat regime banned student unions, al-Jamāʻa ’smain power base. During his “autumn of …
Poster that says, "Resist," at a Yale University anti-draft rally in 1968.

The Political Costs of Filling the Ranks

… discussion of the price being paid by reservists and National Guard troops in Iraq. Observing that 40 percent of … connections to get appointments in . . . the reserves or National Guard. Consequently, when Richard Nixon took office … by all accounts, is slipping. According to one Illinois National Guard soldier in Iraq, the uncertainty of when …
Aerial view of Pearl Harbor, October 1941

Pearl Harbor

… rival Britain. In April, the Japanese signed the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact, eliminating a potential enemy and … to prepare America for war and support Britain and the Soviet Union throughout 1940 and 1941. Fighting isolationist …
Immigrant Rights Protest by Betty Tsang, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

The Federal War on Immigrants Is a War on All Workers

… own legal counsel. Deportations have been a tool of anti-unionism ever since 1917, when armed vigilantes known as … of hundreds of immigrants of Russian origin to the Soviet Union. In the 1930s, at the height of labor … "Once Sept. 11 happened, [immigration] became an issue of national security." Ultra right-wing anti-immigrant fringe …