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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 …
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 … Global/Transnational
“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” 1861.

The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History

… from the outset.   When Texans decided to secede from the Union, for example, they did so, according to their official … which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union, because "the destruction of the existing relations …
President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.

Fighting a War in Name Only

… war on terror? The question answers itself.  Dedicating the National World War II Memorial last month, President Bush … of our democracy.  Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of international relations at Boston University and writes for the …
An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania, March 1, 1780. Pennsylvania State Archives.

The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom

… principle might trump skin color as the basis of American nationality. A freed slave, James Mars, exuded confidence in … attractive in the North. Reintegrating the South into the union came at the cost of any serious study of its peculiar …
Glacial melt from Myrdalsjökull glacier in the south (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment.

A Postcard from Reykjavik: Iceland’s Volcanic History

… fissure, a system of craters near present-day Vatnajökull National Park. That eruption lasted ten months, led to the … appear even in Benjamin Franklin’s diary. Þingvellir national park, just east of Reykjavik. And, in our age of …
Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
emancipation illustration from Harper's Weekly

President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago

… the war; now the soldiers he commanded fought not only for union, but for freedom—in some cases, their own. Lincoln’s … as well as slaves in regions of the Confederacy occupied by Union troops. The Proclamation was also somewhat redundant; … in 1920. Even with legal equality established on the national level in the twentieth century, African Americans …
Mr. Ernesto Zedillo, Chair GDN Board of Directors, kicks off the 10th annual GDN conference.

Broken Promises in Mexico

… the major business associations, professional groups, labor unions, and peasant organizations. Public resources are … Diplomacy/International Relations …
Martha last passenger pigeon

100 years have gone by... still no Passenger Pigeons

… The Last Passenger Pigeon," Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History "The Flight of the … Pigeon, Now 100 Years Extinct," by Krishnadev Calamur (National Public Radio, September 1, 2014) "Century After … And Scientists Hope to Bring Them Back," by Carl Zimmer ( National Geographic , August 31, 2014) "Why the Passenger …
Charles E. Wilson being sworn in

Beyond Civil Rights

… “elimination of segregation based on race, color, creed, or national origin, from American life” as well as measures to … century abolition triumphed in 1860s when the war for the Union turned into a crusade for emancipation. Then …
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman

After Midnight

Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
… under leaders committed to promoting Islamic identity. The Soviet war in Afghanistan and the influx of ideas and money … of their country. In India, the rise of a new wave of Hindu nationalist movements threatened the subcontinent’s secular …