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Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
… by a U.S. citizen on American soil. Charlie King’s antiwar anthem highlighted the connections between American military … threads she has spun. But McVeigh’s prosecution, and the national media’s reporting of it, elided those connections. …
Nixon shakes hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

Nixon and China, Bush and Cuba?

… not be accused of being soft on communism. He first came to national attention as a congressional investigator of … improve U.S. relations with Mexico, Canada and the European Union, and deprive Castro of one of the weapons in his … America … Caribbean … Cuba … United States … Diplomacy/International Relations … Cold War … Nixon and China, Bush and …
'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe Book Cover.

Mr. Bush Meet Mr. Jackson

Review of 'What Hath God Wrought?': The Transformation of America, 1815-1848, by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press, 2007)
… central government." (p. 835) Lincoln, who saved the Union and purged slavery from the land, Howe writes, was … points out that the company Samuel Morse founded – Western Union – continued to send telegrams until 2006. More than …
German and Indian troops as part of the international coalition to put down the Boxer Rebellion

History Shadows U.S.-China Relations

… the seeds for the Boxer Rebellion by impinging on China’s national sovereignty. One reason all this matters now is … Now, as a century ago, competing visions of Chinese national sovereignty have been exposed, and radically … of Chinese who were not Boxers. They looted Chinese national treasures. They raped Chinese women. American …
Palestine & Israel flags

Israeli and Palestinian Fantasies Block the Way to Peace

… Israel's commitment to the settlements also angers international friends whose sympathy and moral support were … Politics, including the kind associated with international negotiations, is the art of the possible. Robert …
"Gay Liberation" by George Segal

Stonewall and the Unfinished Gay Revolution

… was present both nights penned a graphic account—reprinted nationally—that characterized the uprising as an … turning point for the gay community. Thanks in part to the national attention his coverage received, he proved to be …
View of the Solovetskii Monastery.

A Postcard from Solovki

… Russian Orthodoxy for centuries, the islands are a Russian national park and have been a UNESCO World Heritage Site … of the darkest stories of the 20th century: the GULAG–the Soviet prison system. Today it is a working monastery once … history of the GULAG—the forced prison system of the Soviet Union—for many years now. And as many of my students will …

Requiem: Detroit and the Fate of Urban America

… facilities, plenty of workers who weren't steeped in the union tradition, and plenty of ways to improve profit … the labor laws that gave our fathers the ability to earn union wages; the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) mortgages … whole sections of New Orleans remain in ruins. The current national economic meltdown is making the situation even more …
King Capital, caricature by the Slovenian graphic artist and illustrator Hinko Smrekar (first half of the 20th century).

Why Business Loves Laissez Faire

… ethos flouted more than over the question of labor unions and strikes. During the 1890s, as the Supreme Court … it used the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to undermine many union activities, ruling that unions constituted illegal "cartels."  When workers went on …
"The Bosses of the Senate" (1889). Reformers like the cartoonist Joseph Keppler depicted the Senate as controlled by the giant moneybags, who represented the nation's financial trusts and monopolies.

The Dreary Science Meets Politics

… ethos flouted more than over the question of labor unions and strikes. During the 1890s, as the Supreme Court … it used the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act to undermine many union activities, ruling that unions constituted illegal "cartels."  When workers went on …
This postcard depicts a recreation of the Arbella, the ship that carried John Winthrop and his fellow Puritans to present-day Massachusetts.

From Forgotten Phrase to American Myth

Review of As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon , by Daniel T. Rodgers (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018)
… scene is part of the American origin story, central to our national creed. Except that it isn’t. As Daniel Rodgers …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… democracy. There were political parties, independent trade unions, human rights organizations, independent newspapers, … backed down from his promises to disavow Shari’a Laws. The National Islamic Front (NIF) and its leader Dr. Hassan … occasioned by fighting among Arabs. (UNAMID is the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, inaugurated …
 Haile Selassie in 1942

Emperor Haile Selassie I Returns Triumphant to Ethiopia

… and 107 Ethiopians were killed. Even though an international team had established that Walwal was in fact 150 … populations. This use of chemicals violated the international treaty of Montreux, which Italy had signed in 1928, …
Early OSU football game

4th and Goal? The Past of the American University and the Future of the NCAA

… the relationship between American university sports and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. In this … rights and college finances.   Leticia Wiggins   The National Collegiate Athletic Association or NCAA is feeling … of compensation. Players at Northwestern are looking into unionizing, and so on and so forth. But I think what we what …
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland

From the Cold War to the War on Terror

… If it's not possible, how long, for example, does the international community accept this sort of loosely guided … a softening of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union, led by Gorbachev, the Reagan administration …
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at a press conference in 1964.

Martin Luther King’s True Legacy: Revolutionary Ideals

… Erecting a monument for Martin Luther King, Jr. on the National Mall in Washington will honor a great American. … and his fellow civil rights workers intentionally created national discomfort in cities, north as well as south, … be like for all Americans and people around the world if national leaders and common citizens alike exercised our …

Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later

… to apply those legal rules. Even though there had been a nationally visible civil rights movement since the … exciting, off-year contests. The decline of private-sector unions since the mid-1960s across the North has contributed … the Democrats since the 1930s have relied heavily on unions to turn out their voters. And so when state …